03-23-2015, 10:43 AM
My plan is to offer resurfacing services for lathe beds, probably 14" & smaller, and vertical mills.
When I was in the Navy and stationed on the USS Coral Sea it went under a massive overhaul (long over due IMHO) in Long Beach CA. They also removed all the machinery from the machine shop and sent it to a rebuilder in LB. One of the machines was a 24 X 120 Lodge & Shipley gap bed lathe (36" with the gap removed). We went on a "field trip" to the rebuilder to see what was happening. The lathe was on his planner with a tool post grinder attached getting ready to be resurfaced. This planner is probably the most massive machine tool I've ever seen. It could have easily held four of the 24X120 L&S lathes. The table was even with the floor to make loading easy.
When I was in the Navy and stationed on the USS Coral Sea it went under a massive overhaul (long over due IMHO) in Long Beach CA. They also removed all the machinery from the machine shop and sent it to a rebuilder in LB. One of the machines was a 24 X 120 Lodge & Shipley gap bed lathe (36" with the gap removed). We went on a "field trip" to the rebuilder to see what was happening. The lathe was on his planner with a tool post grinder attached getting ready to be resurfaced. This planner is probably the most massive machine tool I've ever seen. It could have easily held four of the 24X120 L&S lathes. The table was even with the floor to make loading easy.