03-25-2012, 07:03 PM
I visit a friend's shop regularly and he has a 36" Cincinnati from the late 1960's or early 70's sitting there. He says they use it very rarely and I would offer him money for it if I have any place to put the behemoth. I'll see if I can can a photo of the beast the next time I'm there.
I learned to run them with a 16" Gould & Eberhart back in my junior year of trade school. We learned those AFTER I'd done first year bench and gear head lathes and sophmore year of turret lathes and NC (not CNC) milling. I've always apprecited what they can do, but almost never see them used in commercial shops anymore. Two exceptions were that friend's place of employment and a maker of adjustable reamers I got to visit. They use shapers to rough out the HSS blades for the reamers.
I learned to run them with a 16" Gould & Eberhart back in my junior year of trade school. We learned those AFTER I'd done first year bench and gear head lathes and sophmore year of turret lathes and NC (not CNC) milling. I've always apprecited what they can do, but almost never see them used in commercial shops anymore. Two exceptions were that friend's place of employment and a maker of adjustable reamers I got to visit. They use shapers to rough out the HSS blades for the reamers.