First Tilley lantern, and a Thank You

Hi all;
This is my first and only Tilley lantern, and my second Tilley. An R-1 came before it.
It was in pretty nice shape when I got it, but the cap for the pip in the pump was badly stuck. I first
thought it was soldered into the bottom of the pump tube, but found out it was aluminum and had
probably just seized in there.

Kindly member John sent me a complete pump assembly including new pip and leather so I could get
this guy running. Thanks much, John!

Here she is running with a couple of the shop lathes for background.

Dean

 

Hello Dean, that is an X-246-A and the base plate will be date stamped.

Your lantern is in fine condition! Jeff.

 

G'day Dean, a nice clean up of the lantern . I like the laths too.
Martin

 

Hey Dean

Nice light

He's a nice fella that John

Those lathes sure are clean never been able to be that tidy like the DTI/Tailstock set up took me a little while to figure out what was going on there ( then I saw the home made collar/puller arrangement )

Cheers

 

Thanks for the comments, guys.
Jeff, the date says 3-63. A young one.

Lon, I shop-vac the machines most every time I use them, often every day. I just don't like sitting
down for a session and having a mess to start with. At work we used to walk in and start up where
we left off the day before and some guys would step up to the same mess they had yesterday evening,
swarf everywhere. I never could stand that.. stepping up to a pile of swarf to start the day.
Just old habits that followed me home from the welding and machine shops after retirement.

Dean

 

Best I go and sit on the naughty step then

 

Nice lamp....

I'm very much the same Dean. I work with a number of other engineers who have piles of paper everywhere and generally look like their desks have been hit by a grenade.

I just couldn't stand working like that...

 

Don't any of you come and visit my house then - you put me to shame.

 

Don't you vacuum your lathe off then Jean?

 

I vacuum-clean my house every six months - whether it needs it or not.

Same with my lathe (when I get one)...

 

That's nothing ! I Hoover out my cavity wall...........

 

I'm sure there's a million clever things I could say about that picture, I just can't think of any.

 

Posted from an iPad is one thing to say...

 

Ok now I've seen it on the computer I get that joke David. Viewing it from an iPad its the right way up.

 

it is not even the right way up in under down under


kerry

 

Naw! Do your own thang.
You don't have to come vacuum my lathe and I don't have to come vacuum yours. 8)

 

So everyone viewing that pic on a PC is seeing it upside down ???
No picture posting from IPads then thought this was sorted long ago

Dean, what is it you make so regularly......

 

Sometimes, just hobby things for myself. I make quite a few parts for others in the hobby, and I
supply some parts to a business.
Right now, making a run of generators for certain obsolete Coleman models.
Whatever is fun and/or puts a little money in the shop.

 

Your gonna be popular round here, I can tell

 

Nice lamp. And what model is the larger of the two lathes?

 

MMMMM could it be a Southbend

Stu

 

It's a little Atlas 618. "Little" as in, it only weighs about 100 pounds.
I've run quite a few different lathes over the years, and although the Atlas is small, it will cut
an amazing array of imperial threads.
This one is an older model with bronze spindle bearings. The later ones had roller bearings.

The tiny lathe is a Taig. I have a couple of them and a mill from the same company. Small machines but
very tough and easy to maintain repeatable settings.

 

I like the look of those taig mills

 

Thanks for explaining about the lathes Dean; I would love one of those Atlas 618's in my workshop. I think I'll have a look around.
Thanks again

 

Just try hoovering a Herbert No.9b.

 

This is my biggest (80" centres) , wouldn't want to Hoover out that neither....no siree



Apologies Christer if its upside down again

 

As Crocodile Dundee once said, "that's not a lathe, this is a lathe".



Link nice pictures of a small machine shop.

 

Holy Ships Crank great link Matt absolutely fascinating !

Cheers

 

I thought so too, I just wanted a picture of a big lathe for a laugh but was amazed when I saw the man cutting a crank lobe from what looks like a foot or more thick steel.

 

About the largest lathe I've worked around was a 2x16 foot Monarch. I still vacuumed it at the end
of the shift so I had a clean place to work next day.
We used that one mainly for cutting long Acme lead screws and large bushings. Usually I worked on much
smaller machines. Three ft to five ft centers. "Normal" sized lathes, more or less.

Dean