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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...

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...

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...