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Hello firstly let me say I am sorry to hear of the loss of your BiL and the position you find yourself in I have been following this thread quite closely as I am in the process of trying to set up a complete home workshop. I have watched many MYFORD lathes sell on eBay while I was looking for a...

Your right it's amazing that I talk about loudness at all considering I need 2 hearing aids to hear anything,"only joking" but I do wear hearing aids,I think I'm talking of relative to how it is without the thread cutting gears in place. The latest problem I have come across is that there are...

Hello Richard No I made sure there was backlash in the gears as I said in the post, might have been too much if that would make a difference but I think it is just down to poor gears and you soon get used to the noise, I remember Blondihacks saying in one of her vids that she had spent a lot of...

Hi Steamchick yes I hear what you say I had watched a vid by Ades workshop on how to fit a gear set up on his little lathe a Warco 180 and his machine left the spindles fixed to the banjo, they had flats on the end to put a spanner on while you undid the nuts to remove the gears and to move the...

Well I most disappointingly took my first foray into screw cutting, the prize would be a simple draw bar to adapt an ER 32 collet chuck with MT4 taper fitting into my lathe spindle this exercise has been shown by Blondihacks and seemed quite simple although I don't think she went into great...

Looks like you beat me to it

Hello again I have just been on the ARC site and there seems to be a very large difference in the pricing structure compared to Axminster seems you can get an X3 at ARC for the less than the price of a 2.7 at Axminster I can see there is a delivery charge but it seems great value for money, even...

Hello Jason Yes your right I have heard of the Sieg but not very much talked about on the internet or at least I have failed to find it I have just looked on the Axminster web page and they do seem a bit pricey but you get what you pay for I suppose the X3 is out of my price range anyway...

Hi Simon Thanks for the info it all helps me to make a plan

I am trying to find out if any of our members are using any of the three main Chinese bench top mills that seem to be popular in England ie WARCO CHESTER ARMADEAL and what model you are using and how you rate them and if you would have picked another or upgraded to a larger model knowing what...

Here's a little question I am hoping to get a medium sized milling machine (single phase) and was wondering what is best belt drive or direct drive, when I say medium I mean not in the £700 to £800 range more in the £1000 to £2000 range and hopefully with brushless motor your advice much...

I have just been on the Chester web site and can't find what kind of motor it is but it looks like this model now comes with a 1200W motor instead of the 750W in mine

Hello Steamchick No offence taken thank you for all your safety advice which I will take on board and try to use the lathe correctly and safely. I do have the manual for the machine and it does have a wiring diagram though I will be hoping I don't need to use it. I would hope that the motor is...

Hi Terry Seems I may not have described what i did very well because I supported the far end of the bar with a fixed steady and then parted off a small disc on the tailstock side or maybe its not good practice to do that anyway John

Hi Terry The Manual shows two centres supplied with the lathe an MT4 and a MT2 so you would expect the one supplied for the tailstock to be hardened, I'm going to get me file out if it is then I have managed to destroy a hardened one. John

Hi Terry I think it may be because most of us and me imparticular might not be as well educated as yourself despite having a Grammar School education and having latin as a subject there I have never heard of the word John PS Or maybe I slept through that one

Hi will I think that everything to do with metal and machining is much more readily available in the USA than it seems to be here. I do have a set of proper centre drills but as they are all the same angle all you are doing using the different sizes is drilling a deeper wider hole and was...

Hi Dalboy I am asking the question because I have destroyed the standard mt2 centre that came with the lathe despite lubricating with oil before use maybe I put too much pressure on it or maybe the hole was too shallow not sure about this. I have bought a love centre but have found that it is...

Hello Dalboy There's a bit of a difference there isn't there's the bad finish was too fast a feed rate you reckon the smaller diameter on the end looks pretty good to me, but looks like even with EN1 you still need to watch what your doing. I had a bit of a practice this afternoon I decided to...

Hi Terry The whole of the bar has been turned by me except the bit in the chuck and basically show different finishes achieved its probably just a poor photo that might give it the ground appearance that would be something wouldn't it John