With motor and countershaft attached to the back of the machine, there was no longer any need for the new owner to find a location in the workshop where he could spend the best part of a day struggling to install a wall or ceiling-mounted countershaft this machine could be dropped onto a bench, plugged in and used within minutes of arriving home. Atlas lead the way in its application to a small lathe when, in 1932, they introduced an entirely new model, the world's first small lathe with an integral all-V-belt drive system. However, just post WW1, a revolution in transmission design was created when the first continuous-loop, narrow-section "wedge" belt was introduced - though it was to be nearly ten years before it became widely adopted. Although "V" belts had been widely available from the early years of the 20th century they were in the form of a wide and clumsy sectional type (identical in concept to today's " T-Link" type) and often used on the final-drive system of less-expensive motorcycles (where their "soft" action took some of the roughness out of the crude power delivery then common). Introduced in 1932, at $64.50, the original, lightly constructed 9-inch Craftsman "Metalcraft" lathe was really an early Atlas product - and virtually identical to that Company's own machine of the same capacity. of Jackson Michigan - Armature LatheĬraftsman Wood Lathes Courlan 109 Craftsman Metal Lathe Catalogs 1932-35ĪA Craftsman Epicyclic Headstock BackgearsĪ complete set of Craftsman sales and other literature is available, coveringĪll machines produced during the period 1929 to 1966 SEARS Model 549-2892 8-inch Lathe (Re-badged Emco Compact 8)
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