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This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley.
This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description.
This lathe was still in occasional use. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
I remember when you could buy these things by the case for less than $300 a unit. Never again, though... AWB or not, these will never be imported again. Why? Read:
"In 1994, some employees of Norinco came under federal investigation from both the FBI as well as the BATF after a successful sting dubbed “Operation Dragon Fire.” In May 1996, in what was called "the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in U.S. history," 14 individuals and an Atlanta, Georgia company were indicted for the unlicensed importation and sale of 2,000 Type 56's into the United States. U.S. Customs agents posing as arms traffickers convinced a group of Chinese arms dealers, including three Norinco representatives, that they were in the market to buy guns for drug rings and street gangs. "The defendants offered the government undercover agents more sophisticated weapons, including hand-held rocket launchers, mortars, anti-aircraft missiles, silenced machine guns and even tanks," said Wayne Yamashita of the U.S. Customs Service. The Customs Service discovered during the investigation that these weapons were bound for Oakland, California street gangs. According to an affidavit signed by two of the undercover agents involved in the investigation, representatives from Norinco offered to sell urban gangs shoulder-held missile launchers capable of downing a large commercial airliner." - From Wiki
The current owner Willie Shepherd, who is well into his eighties, originally traded two sacks of potatoes for this sweet (at the time) ride.
The items on the driver's seat appears to be a powder horn.
Three-exposure tone-mapped HDR (EV0, EV-2, EV+2).
Image was made in my photo tent, with front flap installed.
I have a 5000k (daylight) 55-watt compact fluorescent bulb in a metal reflector on each side, positioned quite close to the photo tent. That's 55 actual watts, not watts equiv. They're comparable to something like a 240 watt incandescent bulb.
I use a white card in the tent to take a white balance reading, and use that preset value for all shots made in the tent. Colors are always right on this way.
As long as you don't mind using a tripod, you don't really need flashes to do a good job with product photography.
This is not my photo, it has been cirling the web for a while. Wanted to take it out of the 2nd Amendment forums and share it here with Flickr friends. Hope you like.
3/20/2020 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Ray Sausanavitch talks with Raymond Marquis after he purchased a gun at Wolf's Indoor Range and Shooting Center in Bristol on Friday. Even though Marquis has a valid pistol permit, the process was delayed by the an overload at Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection because of high demand.
The Mean Green Machine spends its last day with me.
Seven-exposure HDR. Natural light from windows- no artificial light on subject.
March, 2006, and the still-defunct Clausing was reduced to life as a junk accumulator. It now "rests in pieces", hopefully due for a resurrection by Easter, 2012...
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
Taken with my new cheapo Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens, mounted on my Nikon D600. This is the earlier non-CPU version of the lens (model FE8M-N), but my D600 handles this well, giving full metering when the camera is set to know the parameters of the mounted lens.
As you can see, the lens is intended to cover the much smaller DX "crop sensor". The lens hood obstructs much of the image circle when projected onto the FX (36x24mm) sensor.
The hood is permanently attached, so it will require some brutal measures to free it. Once removed, the circle cast on my sensor will reside within the rainbow ring here. MUCH more usable area. You can see the inside of the lens hood (circular grooves around the image).
Grotesquely post-processed by Photomatix, this weirdness is not a product of this particular lens.
The current owner Willie Shepherd, who is well into his eighties, originally traded two sacks of potatoes for this sweet (at the time) ride.
Easy deployment and added safety for transport and storage. Allows storage in Condition 1 with confidence. Homemade Raven Vanguard clone.
Here's one in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNji5GNnan4
Oh, and remember, if guns are made illegal then only criminals will have guns.
This photo was made with a Phoenix MZ-5000 650mm-1300mm f/8-f/16 T-mount lens on a Nikon D600.
The lens was made by Samyang in Korea, and is sold under many brand names, such as:
Bower, Falcon, Opteka, Phoenix, Polar, Pro-Optic, Vivitar, Walimex and Rokinon
Rokinon 8mm fisheye lens, intended for use on crop sensor DSLR cameras.
I shaved off the original built-in lens hood to allow this wider field of view.
The camera was a Nikon D600, placed on top of a 4' tall tree stump, facing straight up at zenith.
Exposure time was 30 seconds at f/5.6 and ISO400
This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
This woman, whose brother was a victim of gun violence, was among the demonstrators at the National March On the NRA in Denver.
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, but hopefully not until I have a chance to remove and save some of the smaller parts from this aging derelict.
It weighs about 4,000 pounds, and is considered a baby of its type.
Five-exposure HDR.
Nikon 35mm f/1.8 DX lens on Nikon D50
126 seconds at ISO200
I adjusted the levels and curves for this image, otherwise it is as-shot.
The lower part of this psychedelic mushroom cloud image is Route 299 between Bieber and Adin, California.
Photograph published on 9/17/2023 { link below}
www.cambridgeday.com/2023/09/17/trump-the-14th-amendment-...
Photograph also published on January 4, 2024 (link below)
dianerehm.org/shows/2024-01-04/a-look-ahead-to-the-issues...
Photograph also published on January 4, 2024 { link below}
wamu.org/story/24/01/04/a-look-ahead-to-the-issues-questi...
This is with a 1970s-vintage (maybe early 1980s) orange-colored f/11 Celestron C90 (90mm objective), with a focal length of 1000mm. The newer ones are quite different, and have longer focal lengths.