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Pitt's Lathe - Page 2
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Above and below: another model of the heavier Pitt's lathe - but this time with an even cruder power cross-feed mechanism involving a gear formed on the end of the cross-feed screw.

Above and below: Pitt's Lathe in the Canadian Museum of Making


Harry Pitt's 3.5" x18" backgeared, plain-turning gap-bed lathe. Originally flywheel and treadle driven, this is a design typical of the type offered to amateurs and small professional workshops in the period 1850 to 1900


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Pitt's Lathe - Page 2
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