Sheldon Lathes

[Zebra13]

Gents,

Does anybody have experience with Sheldon lathes? If so, what were your impressions?

Thanks,
Justin

 

[johan teughels]

very fine lathe nice size but i found mine very noisy

 

[martin zuck]

The Sheldon lathes were top of the line. The reason they were so noisy was because of the hardened gears they had.

 

[blades]

I had a small Sheldon from the 40's (ex war depart. labels all over it). Was a nice piece 6" chuck about 36" between centers along with a big old Sebastion 14" chuck 48" between centers. Sorry I do not remember the exact models or throws any more. Old iron is nice, but I opted for one current unit that presented less difficulties between Metric and SAE threading. Both had a fair amount of wear and were going to require some in depth remediation which you can almost always plan on in old iron. Sheldon had a taper attachment as well. ( miss that bit - but there are ways around it for those few occasions)

 

[zfastmalibu]

I have a 13" and its a great machine. The only issue is parts are very hard to find.