Good old Santa brought me a model engineering lathe for crimbo

I've been looking for an engineering type website along the lines of this one, does anyone have any suggestions.

(Keep it clean)

Cheers and Happy Hogmanay

Mick

Mick, Happy hogmanay to u 2, have a nice one, I will
Shug.

Good old Santa brought me socks - lucky bugger!!

santa brought me a soldering kit!

I got slippers, it's not a complaint as I find them much more comfortable than my boots

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Originally posted by RoadkillUK
I got slippers, it's not a complaint as I find them much more comfortable than my boots

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Santa brought me a car dust cover (I'm fed up of finding the car covered in dust and leaves blown under the garage door, specially as it's nearly finished) and the promise of a crash helmet (as I'm not having a windscreen on my car).

rgds,

David

G'day Mix

I too have a model engineering lathe,

What model is it? I have an old lathe which appears to be a special, I am restoring it and reconditioning the slides and screws.

I got interested in building cars through model engineering and now I thumb through "the book" to see how many parts I can make on my lathe.

I have investigated the possiblity of using tube instead of rhs for the chassis, and invented/developed an apparatus for fish mouthing for use with a lathe! However I am yet to make make this tool as the lathe is not finished yet!

(I'm fed up of finding the car covered in dust and leaves blown under the garage door, specially as it's nearly finished)

Poor Bugger- I uncover my car when we have a dry day, then I have to bail it out, 1" of rusty water in the foot wells, condensation over everything - bloody depressing

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Poor Bugger

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my lathe is a similar size to the colchester
6 1/2" centre height, about 9 1/2" in the gap,

lathe is about 580 kgs, very early in the build so not sure if it lighter than the locost.

As a matter of interest what is the weight difference between a cortina hub and a sierra one?

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Poor Bugger

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David

P.S. I was fortunate to buy an ex-school workshop lathe a couple of years ago - a Colchester Student 6" centre-height. Cost me £200, but then it cost £100 to transport it to my garage! My other lathe is a Zyto circa 1945, which cost me a massive £45...

The daft thing is the Colchester probably weighs as much as my Locost!

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I had a Colchester student years ago. I was very lucky to get off with a suspended sentence!

There is a yahoo model engineering group but not much activity on it.
Have you searched for model engineering in Google? htere are loads of sites but model engineering covers a wide variety of subjects.
If you just want to learn about using it there are a few good model engineering books that cover setting up a work shop and using machinery. A good one is the amateurs lathe by laurence sparey if i remeber correctly.
Paul

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Originally posted by Mix
I've been looking for an engineering type website along the lines of this one, does anyone have any suggestions.

(Keep it clean)

Cheers and Happy Hogmanay

Mick

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how much can you get a small lathe for? I'm not talking about something that weights 100's of kgs just something that could go on a work bench and turn small bits of steel / plastic etc?

(no I haven't a clue what i'm asking, I haven't touched a lathe since I was at high school 15 years ago)

They're probably the most expensive second-hand lathes - it's the small ones that the model engineers want.

It's the big old dinosaurs, industrial size and probably 3-phase that go for a song.

David

hmmm, typical, i've got a single garage with very little space - the one thing i can't fit in is a big old lathe.

My dad got an old one about 20 years ago. It was originally made is something like 1920. Runs like a dream, my only problem with it is all the markings are imperial! Oh, that and its a good 120 miles away.

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Originally posted by MikeR
my only problem with it is all the markings are imperial!Oh, that and its a good 120 miles away.

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some times you just want to slap someone

yeah okay about 200km away.

[Mike keep ;ooling on Ebay and you may get lucky.
There was a drummond round bed lathe wich is a basic lathe from earlt 1900s that sold for about £50 recently. It needed a motor and some work but would be ok for a beginner.
As previously mentioned small lathes fetch a premium and sell very quickly.
I have a Raglan little john wich is halfway between model engineers and industrial lathes and it fits easily in a single garage size workshop.
You may pick something similiar up for about five or six hundred pounds with tooling.
The age of the machine doesnt matter as much as condition and imperial dials are no hardship once you are familiar with the machine.
Paul.
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hmmm, typical, i've got a single garage with very little space - the one thing i can't fit in is a big old lathe.

My dad got an old one about 20 years ago. It was originally made is something like 1920. Runs like a dream, my only problem with it is all the markings are imperial! Oh, that and its a good 120 miles away.