Simon Sound Service Lathe, 1950ies

[subkontrabob]

Dear fellow Trolls,

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to take a look at, and some pictures of an old English lathe here in Finland.

Surprisingly, both the playback and cutter diamonds are still intact, and after a bit of fiddling and guessing I figured out how to use the manual controls for transport and cutter carriage etc.

Unfortunately the idler wheel assembly is completely missing, and would need to be re-engineered from the ground up. The bottom of the plywood housing/transport box is delaminating and moldy. The tube circuits would certainly need a lot of attention, some of the control dials and switches have seized.

The lathe was used by a local entrepreneur to provide freelance location recording services in the 1950ies and 1960ies. I don't know when the gentleman departed, but sadly his estate seems to have been split up long since, and the person that is currently in posession of the lathe has no further documentation or supplies of any kind for the machine.


http://www.ferrographworld.com/simon.html
http://www.ferrographworld.com/simon2.html
http://www.ferrographworld.com/simon3.html

[Aussie0zborn]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the pics.