The watchmakers' lathe, its use and abuse; a story of the lathe in its various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses (1903)
Goodrich, Ward L. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Hazlitt & Walker · leaf 80
d the plate is ground off after it ismounted on the spindle in its own headstock. The onlyobjection to the universal head is its cost and this, amount-ing, as it does, to a sum equal to the cost of the lathe, ispractically prohibitory, so that very few of them are used. The universal face plate,… … Face Plate, showing Circular Slots. fore inserting the chuck in place. It is then passed into thedraw-in spindle from the rear, and screwed into the pumpcenter again, when the face plate has been fixed in its posi-tion, after which it is operated as described for the uni-versal head. Nearly all…
Clocks and watches · Lathes
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