Recent content by goldstar31

It's the oil on the bearings that matters What is lost is lost and serves no useful part Having said the axiomatic fact, you spindle should continue to be lubrivated up to perhaps 17,000 rpm. Little is said about the number and differences in the usual gamut of tasks that a decent tool and...

Justine In the UK, the cost of the plans and operating instructions are about £65. I recall Martin's models in the USA Most mark 2 ones should be easily converted as Mark3's AS I have a working Mark 1, , I am sort of adding the newer Mk3 bits to it- as they are machined. Lots...

Is anyone else building or considering building the most advanced Mark3 Quorn?

I guess that I am much older than most but amongst other things, that I am quite clear about the origins of things like the Deckel and its later derivatives. It may NOT agree with other concepts but I can go back to the original Deckel which was NOT a so called universal cutter grinder but...

I had to laugh!!!!!!!!! You've saved 65 Quid :) Best Wishes N

John Congratulations. Nice to see my old motor is of use:) With tongue in cheek, two things are worth considering on your collet holder As we all know, it might be worth controlling the advance or retard of the ER collet- which gives a pivot The second thing is to move things- sideways. Got...

I have to confess that over the last couple of months that I have been going back to 'Firsdst Principles' in taking a visit to see the trains of the Stone Age in a visit to the Hebrides to see the stone circles and the restored so called Nordic and not 'Scottish dwellings. You know the sort of...

As an 'addendum', the ER25 collet holder etc is interesting. However, I gave up on another web site as there seems to be a stout refusal to spend money on the benefits of the 'new'-ish Quorn Mark3 and the ability not only to use the ER25 collet holder and to do the modifications to 'round off'...

I doubt that it is a Stent. It is more likely to be FROM a design by Derek Brookes The drawings appeared in Model Engineers Workshop issues 16 and 17 I own a fabricated( yes) short Stent. My severe macular degeneration at 91 prerukes further comment, I suspect that BaronJ has something...

Respectfully-------No! The topuc has been aired -- and AIRED An 'emgine lathe' HAD to be capable of making patterns for eventual castings to be machined on the lathe itself. Again, I have mentiomed ornamental turing lathes, which are essentially enmgine lathes but with accessories generally...

I have assumed that mills and lathes are \generic' despite being \badged' by Imorters So give or take minor differences, they are all 'What Fitz Henry FitzWilliam' and My manual was for my Warco ihas a manual from Haebor Freight and your lathe from Chester is out of the same stable as as my...

I am over 91 and am not 'guessing'. These little saws simply filled a gap and unless one had the ability and could afford the sastings for the Westbury, there was nothing else-- except a hand hacksaw. The Burgess was small enough to fit on the emd of the bench along with the £25* Yes)...

Hence the 'Conversion Kit'. I seem to recall that the kit had a sheetof paper with sprrds- etc, A tool of limited life normally

I doubt that there was ever a manual, Like so many tools of yesteryear, it was assumed that the purchsder knew what he was about. I had one and when it wore out, I gave it away. As far as memory permitd, I wroye it all up HERE many decades ago. It was an alumium frame and it wore out and yje...

Interesting but far from relevant, I afrais! I can recall that Maudsley and Holzapffel were far FAR earlier and whilst few of us have the maths to do Ornamental Turning, it. stii exists. Nicholas the last Tsar of Russia had an Ormanr ntal Turning latrthe and these things which cost the...