Need some help identifying a lathe, please!

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Need some help identifying a lathe, please!

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Hello, first time here and hopefully not the last!

I recently acquired a decent sized metal turning lathe, but other than knowing it's a Harrison, the spec is a mystery. Most of the plates that give the details about gearing an speed etc are very difficult to read. Of course there is no literature with it.

So, where would be a good place to start trying to identify it? I can start using it now for simple turning, but I'd like to use the threading and autofeed as well, and these are a bit beyond my experience / memory.

Thanks!
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Posting a picture of it may get you the information you need.
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We have a Harrison M400 (i think)at work.

The site linked to above should help, not a lot of lathe info thats not on there!
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Hopefully you can see the image!
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merlin50 wrote:try here
http://www.lathes.co.uk/index.htm
Thanks! How did I not find that with Google?!
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