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Hi boys! The finger plate is finished and a special box was made to keep it safe & sound...... ::) The parts of the ensemble, including a special screwdriver to screw in the special base for using it in the vise.... The finger plate assembled showing some of its infinite uses..... A...

Having inherited this great machine from my Grandfather, and after using it a lot of years with the most splendid results, it was time for a complete overhaul.... The Boley F1 watchmakers lathe was made by the Gustav Boley factory in Esslingen, Neckar, a small town in Western Germany.... The...

One of the most gratifying tasks we modelers can undertake, is the construction of our own tools....at least this is my personal way of seeing things.... A long caressed project from way back then, was the design & building of a finger plate....I just made the decision of making one for my...

Hey boys!.............long time no see................... :big: Some new stages on the mini lathe..... After lots of cold sweating, I finally managed to make those transmission gears work.... Distance between gear centers is critical; after that; everything works smoothly.... Take a look at...

Hy Zephyrin!...........Indeed there are 2 different colors of the metal, I used 2 different old padlocks and it seems they were made out of different brass alloys..... If you look carefully at my pics, you'll also see a brass bar filler I used to fill one of the padlocks holes.... As for the...

That's a red sealing wax filler I used to hide an ugly indentation of the padlock...... ::) Mario

The toolpost mounted on the cross slide and doing its thing.............. ::) Closeup showing the perfect center height of the cutting tool you can achieve......no pips at all!......... :big: Besides, you can have infinite horizontal positions of the cutting...

In a distraction moment from the making of the miniature lathe, I was browsing through some old Model Engineers issues when I found a toolpost design which I couldn't resist :big:.....here's the story...... Needed a chunk of brass and I found some old brass padlocks in my scrap...

You boys are too kind in your comments!............ :o We continue rolling with the headstock.....although far from being finished, I couldn't resist mounting it on the lathe's bed and give it a try under power... The headstock in place with the countershaft aligned...

Thanks DOC123!.....yes, I have been collecting discarded parts of illuminated signs, and I have scrap pieces of acrylic sheets in 1, 2, 5, 7, 10 and 12 mm thicknesses.....all of them in different colors, clear and opaque... ::) When I need other thicknesses I just glue pieces together with...

We continue with the already painted & polished countershaft bracket and the motor brackets.... The motor brackets.... The countershaft bracket with the complete countershaft in place... Rolling happily under finger power..... The motor & countershaft...

Thanks boys for your kind comments....this makes me go farther ahead pushing the envelope!... :big: The motor casing brackets, which will carry the countershaft bracket as well... The motor inside its casing.....I tested it for one hour at 12 Volts with no apparent...

Some testing of the lathe bed on top of the sub - tables and feet.....making adjustments.... ??? The feet are bolted to the wooden base, which was lovingly sanded and treated with some hand rubbed Tung oil....in my modest opinion, the best treatment you can give to wood...

Hey Jeroen.....! Thanks much for your comments, and no, I'm not using CNC.....I'm from the old school in which everything is done by hand, including the mistakes!!.... :big: Cheers Mario

Some late hour updates..... ::) The spindle nose, made from a 5 mm Allen bolt, drilled and reamed 3 mm....mounted on the headtock's axis and faced in the collet chuck....maximum concentricity, when you get to this point, you begin to go berserk!!! The feet, made in acrylic plate and some...

Thanks Chuck! I've always loved the South Bend lathes....maybe if you can mail me pics and drawings I would be tempted to make that scale miniature of your lathe... :big: Who knows? Cheers Mario

After much looking the PMR lathe, both the wonderful builds here in this forum and in other web sites, I decided to take the plunge and scratchbuild a freelance version of it... As I have no chance of getting the PMR castings, I started making a scale set of drawings in Autocad and began using...

I'm new here and I start asking for help.....not too good, but this subject got me berserk... Sorry to bother you guys, but I'd like to build a completely scratchbuilt miniature lathe loosely based on the PMR one. Since I don't have the kits castings, I'm building it from scrap pieces of...

I'm a newby to this forum and I'm showing the lathes I use.....I work mainly in micromechanics and these little machines are all I need for the moment.... First the most discussed Emco Unimat 3....some love it, others hate it.....its given me faithfull service for more than 35 years...