Just recently got myself a lathe, would be interested to see some of the car related jobs you have created.
very boring, spacers and more spacers. I did turn one very nice dcoe to bike Tb adapter but got bored and never made the other matching three. 
Spacers, adapters, gearknobs..
Next is a steering wheel boss and some indicator stalks...
Thats after the sump, gearbox, front wings and stays, some gauges and roll cage have been sorted...
Wishbone bushes, fishmouths on round and square tubes, coolant and oil pipe connectors and lots of spacers.
Should start taking piccies of things !
Fitter & turner by trade, and worked in a place with lots of lovely aluminium when I built my first car, recipe for disaster (from the
company's productivity point of view!!!). If I could get in a chuck I made it
Steering column & shroud
Spacers
Nutcovers
hub covers
trackrod extensions
bushes
core-plugs
bearings
bearing housings
widgets and wass-inames
catch tank (out of a nice piece of 6" billet)
hose joiners
gear knobs, several different designs
plus other stuff I forgotten about............
Go MAD 
Steering rack extensions.
Cleaning up flywheel (machining face).
Brake drums, disks changing centre hole. Truing up etc.
Spacers and crush tubes.
Steering shaft adapters.
Boring pulley centres
Injector boses
Various jobs for various cars!
Adrian
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Fitter & turner by trade, and worked in a place with lots of lovely aluminium when I built my first car, recipe for disaster (from the company's productivity point of view!!!). If I could get in a chuck I made it
Steering column & shroud
Spacers
Nutcovers
hub covers
trackrod extensions
bushes
core-plugs
bearings
bearing housings
widgets and wass-inames
catch tank (out of a nice piece of 6" billet)
hose joiners
gear knobs, several different designs
plus other stuff I forgotten about............
Go MAD
Steering wheel bits:
Bits for Type 9 hydraulic clutch gubbins:
Skimming manifold flanges:
Spigot centre for flywheel:
PugV6 to Type 9 adapter plate:
Adapter locating spigot:
Wheels for beading tool:
Skimmed Sierra rear hubs to take Escort discs:
Bits for De-dion:
MGF solid subframe mounts:
There's hundreds more things I've had in the lathe (including me) but you get the idea? I like my lathe.
You have a daddy lathe, mines just a small one. 
For a lot of stuff, a smaller lathe is better than a big 'un! A gap-bed is the best of both worlds. Sometimes its hard to explain to folks that a lathe can be used for making things flat, as well as round!
So where is Clairetoo's input?
Adrian
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So where is Clairetoo's input?
Adrian
She'll still be in the garage on the lathe .....
worst thing I did, swaping my old english lathe for a little chinease one but I couldnt keep it and build the car in the garrage.
Just to show the range of stuff you can do with a lathe - this was part of a large `tool' for a fibreglass molding I was making at work , this
part needed to be round and tapered - its 14" diameter and some 5" long made from several layers of MDF glued together ,
And a quick release steering wheel adapter for some one on here .
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catch tank (out of a nice piece of 6" billet)
Appears your lathe is bigger than my lathe too Claire - I like the steering wheel QR
beginnings of the spacer i made for the omega box to get it to work with the saab clutch, cant seem to find a picture of the finished item
you can almost see it here behind the slave cylinder
made a plug for the heater circuit that i eventually took out and bypassed as the motor kept overheating lol
90 degree elbow for my saab waterpump that i tigged onto the cast housing.
custom trigger wheel for my old pinto engine
holes through m8 bolts to make indicator extensions
wishbone parts
headlight mounts
custom made steering shaft
plus thousand of other parts.
last week i made some spacers for nash's suspension. the month before that i mad some spring platforms for mark's tiger, also made mark and
dick some crush tubes for the control arms on their tigers. the list goes on and on and on. btw my harrison lathe is a gap bed, i have managed to
skim the head of a fiat punto on it with a bit of mucking about
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couple more aluminium sparkles
Would not be with out a small lathe.
A few spacers
Clutch Slave for GSXR1100 / RF900 ( a bit of milling on this one).
Both machines are cheap chinese thing's.
Slave
O2 Lambda Nut thingy.
Nut
Now with added CNC control. does need some improvements but,
managed to make a Bike Led lamp.
Best bit was doing a 51mm buy 1mm thread for the lense cover.
Only this of any real interest so far, and not my lathe... I wish I had one!
New sensor by j.buckle, on
Flickr
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catch tank (out of a nice piece of 6" billet)
Ha ha!
Check this out for material wasteage, Peugeot 205 rear beam bushes from Phos Bronze billet, it was the only bit on the rack!
Waste Of Material?
This lot was all done on an old 3 1/2 " lathe, eventually upgraded to a bigger harrison machine, but the smaller lathe was great for learning on.
You can lose hours making stuff with lathes, best tool ever invented.....great fun.
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I can't think of a single item that I 100% made on my lathe.
Rack extensions and fuel filler cap almost, but still needed a bench drill.
A lathe is however a tool that makes other things a lot easier to fabricate.
Wish bones for instance.
Facing off the bush tubes, nice and square. Tapping the M18f threads.
Even the "fish mouth" tube ends can be done with a milling tool in the chuck.
And those much talked about crush tubes lengths? A doddle to get those right.
It's not just the lathe though. You need all the tooling that goes with it.
Cheers,
Paul G
sorry to hijack this but I still have my Myford ML7 for sale since I bought my Harrison L5.
I could really do with it out of the workshop and will be putting it on Ebay shortly.
It has had very little use as the Harrison came up just after I had bought the Myford.
The man who had it before me had retired and bought the lathe to make a model steam engine but he fell ill shortly after starting it and never got to
finish it.
It then stood in the house until his widow died ,I bought it from the son when he cleared the house.
It has a brand new 3 jaw chuck ,a 4 jaw,vertical milling slide,catch plate,quick change tool post,Face plate, is on riser blocks, has graduated lead
screw, plus lots more bits and pieces.
Pics of lathe in my archive.
Regards Denis
I love my lathe. Mine is a Harrison M250 converted to CNC for a training college used to cut wax and then left for 20 years in a corner....£700 from
e-bay and like new. After a little accident with some coolant in the electronics upgraded to modern PC control and Mach3. Fantastic.
A wishbone outer bearing housing - the press fit is +/- 0.0005"!
lower front outer end
Denis - does it have screwcutting?
yes it has screwcutting
It also has lots of tooling for in lathe milling.
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made tapered runners for my ITB setup.
I want a lathe They all come at too high a cost Boooo
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I want a lathe
Ive been looking since start of the month - the Unimat style lathes seem to attract £300+
With most of the older British ones being down south, and too far to travel for me up here.
Seen some really canny looking ones go for £150, but they were always 300 miles away - keep watching
I have also got a 1910 German made Boley lathe 4L running off a flat belt bought fully tooled with all collets and change wheels and a stack of HSS tools for.......£50! It is a wonderful tool and despite being worn, bashed , gouged and mistreated can still produce work to +/- 0.001" . These are not rich boys toys. I have seen several on ebay for less than £100.
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I want a lathe
Lol at making one from scrap
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These are not rich boys toys. I have seen several on ebay for less than £100.