Fairbanks lathe???

[laddy]

Hey,
Locally someone has a 10X20 Fairbanks lathe for sale. I did the UK lathe search and nothing comes up. Anyone know anything about the lathe???? Looks like it comes with change gears, steady rest and compound. Thanks Fred

[dicks42000]

Fairbanks lathe...

Laddy;
I don't know where you're writing from, but I guess you mean a "Fairbanks-Morse" lathe....I recall seeing some machines labled as such. These were all smaller bench lathes at college, in a testing lab I worked at and in the electrical shop in a large shipyard I worked at.

I don't think Fairbanks-Morse actually built small lathes, but I couldn't tell you who's they really were, either. Could have been Standard-Modern, S-B, one of many....Fairbanks-Morse was a name on many products ranging from large diesel engines on down. Llike many manufactures, some things were probably outsourced. F-M was probably concentrating it's engineering efforts on the engines for ships, subs, locomotives etc....
HTH
Rick