With a 2-speed motor sixteen speeds from 30 to 1200 rpm could be obtained and the makers offered the facility to vary the top and bottom speeds by fitting different sizes of pulley. While the lathe was generally on a par with the contemporary Colchester Triumph, its nine speeds (obtained through gears made from heat-treated and ground nickel-chrome steel forgings) were rather more useful, running from 45 to 1500 rpm or, optionally, 54 to 1800. Fitted with multiple, longitudinal carriage "throw-out" stops as standard, the carriage had long and very wide swarf covers that extended right to the tailstock end of the bed - this latter detail, and the raised bedways, can also be clearly seen in the photographs at the bottom of this page. The arrangement provided a usefully deep "gap", though without the usual weakening effect of a removable bed piece. With a 180 mm (7") centre-height, the lathe's had a bed that was flame-hardened and ground-finished with V-ways and constructed as a "double-height" type - not unlike the arrangement used on some flat-bed Drummond lathes in the 1920s - with the carriage running on the covered lower ways and the tailstock on the higher (exposed) set. Designed as a high-class, precision machine (at an expensive £1048 in the late 1950s), the lathe was twice as costly as an English Willson lathe of equivalent size yet, even so, found a ready market, especially in America, where several thousand were sold. Some examples of the SAG 14 had a bed some 3/8" wider, much larger micrometer dials, a hand-operated bed and cross slide lubrication pump, top and cross slides in steel instead of cast iron, a micrometer-dial equipped carriage-traverse handwheel and other small modifications. The bed, headstock and massive stand were cast in one very rigid piece - this was a very heavy lathe intended for hard and accurate work. Graziano machine tools were made in Tortona, Italy and although a wide range of lathes was manufactured, the company's most popular appears to have been the SAG 180 - named for metric markets- and the SAG 14 for inch markets (the numbers being the swing in mm and inches respectively). Manuals for many SAG lathes are available Graziano SAG 12 Graziano SAG 22n, 22nr and 22nrf Lathes Graziano SAG 508, SAG 230, SAG 22 and SAG 20 Lathes Machine Tool Manuals Catalogues Belts Books Accessories Email: t Machine Tool Archive Machine-tools Sal e & Wanted
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