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One of the lesser-known manufacturers of precsion plain turning lathes, the Crystal Lake was manufactured during the 1940s and designed along the lines of contemporary, competing lathes from, for example, Stark, Ames and Pratt & Whitney. While most similar lathes had centre heights of between 3" and 5", the Crystal Lake was considerably larger at 6.5" and also able to accept 19" between centres. The lathe was also massively built with a heavy bed, cross braced diagonally between its walls and mounted on a chip pan with machined location pads. Although lathes of this type often had a bed with simple bevelled edges, or a V-way at the front and a flat at the back, the Crystal Lake chose the novel arrangement of flat at the front and a V at the back.
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