Description: Monarch 13’’ Model EE Precision Lathe, by Monarch Machine Tool Co., Sidney, OH, 1953. Reproduced by Nation Builder Books, Mebane, NC, 2012. 8½ x 11 paperback, 19 pages, with one fold-out. Please note this is a reproduction, not an original. Monarch lathes were first made in 1909, when the company produced four different models. A reputation for fine-quality machine tools was quickly established and to this day the Monarch name is highly respected in engineering circles. Introduced in 1939, the 10 EE was Monarch's best-ever selling lathe and continued in production until the early 1990s. Because they were so well made these lathes have an extraordinary long life, and it is not unusual to find examples of machines made in the early 1950s still playing a part in the toolrooms of internationally famous companies. Unfortunately, the de=industrialization and financialization of the USA economy eventually crippled Monarch, but a shell still operates today, focusing on supplying parts, and reconditioning, rebuilding, and selling old Monarchs. United Airlines took delivery a new 10EE in August 2000 - showing that there is still a need, even in this computer-driven age, for a top-quality, hand-controlled precision toolroom lathe. The ATK Company, manufacturer of the Space Shuttle solid propellant boosters (RSRM) was still, in 2009, using a Monarch Lathe manufactured on December 7th, 1941, for machining flares and dissecting igniter cases. Just a few years after World War 2, Monarch was in bad shape financially. But Monarch lathes were an important national industrial asset – less than a handful of other makers offered a lathe that could maintain tolerances for as long as a Monarch did, including through some brutally heavy production runs. The Monarch 10 EE can truthfully be said to be the lathe that won the war. The Defense Department was not willing to see Monarch disappear, so it devised a unique way of giving the firm an emergency infusion of cash. Basically, Defense told Monarch’s design team to design and build their dream lathe. Everything that the design team had ever wanted to do, but were never able to because of the bean counters, was incorporated into the 13 EE—making it an extremely unique machine. Apparently less than 100 were ever built, and most of them went into the national laboratories that designed and built nuclear weapons. You will have to get this catalog to read about some of the amazing features of this incredible machine tool
Price: 11.98 USD
Location: Mebane, North Carolina
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