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The Wade 8A Owners Registry

 

Anyone who owns a Wade 8A lathe is invited to join the registry.  No personal information is required to be listed, and pictures of your lathe are not necessary.

If you would like to be listed, please send me an email.

 

There are now 36 lathes in the registry.

 

Name and Location

Lathe Serial Number (click number for new window with photos)

Cabinet type/ Drive type

Tooling and accessories

present

Other information

Private Sale 152 Flat belt overhead drive Three jaw, face plate, collet drawbar, collets. Marked "Walter H. Wade, Boston, Mass, USA"

Nick Venero

Rome, NY

174

Flat belt overhead drive

Three jaw, four jaw, tool post, collet draw bar. 

Marked "The Wade-American Tool Co."

Kris Hendricks

Golden Valley, AZ

178

Flat belt overhead drive

-

Missing many parts

Purchased from scrap yard

eBay

Wells River, VT

307

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

Taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, tool post, spindle protector, pick off gears, collet draw bar, collets, original manual.

Listed on eBay July 2006

Drive unit modified to single phase variable speed

Howard Jeanes

England

313

Unknown/flat belt

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, face plate, dog drive plate, collet drawbar, collets.

Converted to vee belt drive

Andy FitzGibbon

Elkins, WV

332

Unknown/flat belt 

None

Missing apron, tailstock, cabinet, all guards, drive system

Doug Holder

New Bern, NC

336

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, 3 Jaw, taper attachment, threading dial,  tool post, collet draw bar, collets.

Navy machine

Don Taylor

Harrison, ID

339

Unknown/Flat belt under

-

Navy machine

Non-original stand

Bob Borinstein

Austin, TX

349

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

3 jaw, face plate, dog plate, tool post, spindle protector, pick off gears, collet draw bar.

Navy machine

Rich Heller

Napa, CA

370

Unknown/flat belt under

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, hand turning rest, micrometer carriage stop, collet drawbar, collets.

Navy machine

Purchased in Rhode Island

Ted Clarke

LaGrange, IN

374

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Taper attachment, threading dial.

Converted to vee-belt drive

Navy machine

Dennis Turk

McMinville, OR

378

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, dog drive plate, spindle protector, pick off gears, collet drawbar, collets.

Purchased in Los Angeles, CA 

Ron Stricklin

Floresville, TX

392

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, 3 jaw, taper attachment, face plate, dog drive plate, collet drawbar, collets, spindle protector.

Navy Machine

Purchased in Van Nuys, CA

Tyler Clark

South Carolina

414

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

-

Rough shape, missing compound rest

Pat Jamieson

North Plains, OR

425

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

-

Navy Machine

Alan Huelsman

Woodland Hills, CA

Unknown

Unknown/flat belt under

3 jaw, 4 jaw, threading dial, taper attachment, face plate, collet drawbar.

Serial number obliterated

Missing original stand

Mark Minkler

Lopez Island, WA

433

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, 3 jaw, threading dial, collet closer, collets.

Navy machine

Andy FitzGibbon

Elkins, WV

503

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, micrometer carriage stop, tool post, face plate, dog drive plate, pick off gears, collet drawbar, collets, spindle protector,  adjustable boring bar holder, coolant system.

Purchased in Trenton, NJ

Charles Forman

San Diego, CA

506

Unknown/flat belt under

Taper attachment.

Missing cabinet

Will Harbison

Sewickley, PA

512

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, pick off gears, collet drawbar, collets.

Purchased in Harrisburg, PA

Brian Smith

Roanoke, VA

519

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Spindle protector, parts of taper attachment.

Missing apron

Navy machine

Purchased in Brooklyn, NY

David Criss

Lindley, NY

520

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Taper attachment, face plate, dog drive plate, pick off gears, collet drawbar, collets.

Navy machine

Greg Barsamian

Brooklyn, NY

538

Oak cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, face plate, collet drawbar, collets.

Purchased from a plating company in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Jimmy Allen

Warrington, PA

563

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Paul Pickard

Princeton, NJ

610

Steel cabinet/flat belt under

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop, micrometer carriage stop, face plate, dog drive plate, pick off gears, collet drawbar, collets, original manual.

MIT machine

Reed Mobley

Chinquapin, NC

632

Steel cabinet/variable speed

-

Navy machine, converted to turn electric motor armatures

 

Joseph Comerford

Cambridge, MA

 

Unknown

Unknown/variable speed (vee belt)

Threading dial, taper attachment link bar, face plate, dog drive plate, collet draw bar, collets.

Owned by a machinist in Waltham, MA

Does not have a serial number stamped

Dennis Turk

McMinville, OR

634

Unknown/variable speed (vee belt)

3 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial.

Machine was damaged in a fall and has many missing parts.

Ron Stricklin

Floresville, TX

657

Steel cabinet/variable speed

-

Missing compound slide

Auction sale

675

Steel cabinet/variable speed

3 jaw, 4 jaw, 6 jaw, taper attachment, threading dial, micrometer carriage stop, lever collet closer, Thread-Lock spindle.

Sold at auction in Saddle Brook, NJ

George Daab

Baldwin, NY

693

Steel cabinet/variable speed (vee belt)

3 jaw, 4 jaw, face plate, dog drive plate, steady rest, threading dial.

Purchased on Long Island, NY

Ed Schwartz

Prairie Village, KS

696

Steel cabinet/variable speed

Steady, 4 jaw, threading dial, threading stop, micrometer carriage stop, tool post, face plate, dog drive plate, collet drawbar, collets, Thread-Lock spindle.

Government owned

-

707

Steel cabinet/variable speed drive

Taper attachment, threading dial, threading stop,  micrometer carriage stop, pick off gears, spindle protector, lever collet closer, 8W step chucks and closer, collet stops, lever tailstock, six-position bed turret, radius turning attachment, Thread-Lock spindle..

Navy machine

Purchased at auction in 2002

Matthew Campbell

Hollywood, CA

769

Steel cabinet/variable speed drive

Steady, follow, 3 jaw, 4 jaw, threading stop, micrometer carriage stop, pick off gears, face plate, collet draw bar, collets, Thread-Lock spindle.

Owned by Douglas Aircraft Company

Ron Gibson

Duncan, OK

800

-

3 jaw, 4 jaw, faceplate, collet drawbar, collets.

Purchased from Halliburton, Inc.

Neil Hochstedler

Vershire, VT

801

Steel cabinet/variable speed drive

Taper attachment, micrometer carriage stop, spindle protector, face plate, dog drive plate, variable speed electric carriage drive, Thread-Lock spindle.

Navy machine

Andy FitzGibbon

Elkins, WV

820

Unknown/variable speed drive (timing belt)

Taper attachment, micrometer carriage stop, variable speed electric carriage drive, Thread-Lock spindle.

Missing cabinet, drive unit, and cross slide.

Purchased in South Plainfield, NJ

 

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