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You will get lot sof good info here, but another route to follow is to take the models along to your local Model Engineering society, the lads there will be able to asses the condidtion of the models in the flesh as it were. If you go to one in the area your GGF used to live there is a...

I like my QCTP a lot, I had one of the 4-way rotating index TP's before and it was good, but everytime I needed to change a tool getting it on centre was a faff, and everytime I wanted to use a never before centred tool it was a shim searching fiddly faff. In all honesty I'd go out of my way to...

As you are short on funds and space a Myford ML10 is smaller and cheaper than an ML7 - the disadvantage being the size of work it can handle by comparison. I've got one and I'm very pleased with it. Plenty big enough to make a model engine on - not that I've got that far myself yet scratch.gif

As a learner - level 1 I've broken (forgotten) two of the rules so far. :( not so long back I carefully rotated the chuck by hand - nothing fouled. So I took a cut, leadscrew powering the slide - wanged the topslide into the chuck - Mr Muppet here only checked everything was clear at the the...

Got there at last... I gave the procedure a trial run on some bar stock before risking my workpiece, unsurprisingly, using the fly cutter without shaping the cutting edge gives a very poor result and tries to knock the horizontal slide off the lathe :) A hunt around the internet lead to some...

The beer was nice :) - turns out I quite like it, I might even try it again..... I got some packing material today but had to spend the time I was hoping to be in the garage out in the garden - best time of year to hack at fruit trees apparently ??? Have to wait until tomorrow now. My...

Very true :) Besides, if I actually finished something, my wife would go into shock :big:

Gonna have to show some pics Mr Rockets!!!

"Wall of OOPS" - brilliant :) Valid point Ian, but for me this project as more about the machine skills than the final item, the flat on this project will be a couple of mm deep - so it would probably take as long to file as I've spent flappping about with the setup on the lathe anyway ;D

Scary is the word Foozer! The work is clamped across the diameter and recessed into the clamp so that as little as possible is protruding, none of the pictures I took show it that well, but is is tightly gripped, the vice was tightened with a Tommy bar as well. I was trying to extend the...

Thanks Bernd and iezitim Setup has gone slowly due to too few hours in the garage :( This is roughly my intention - the packing bolt is temporay and will be replaced by something better and I'm a Tee nut short in the box of useful "bits" that came with the lathe. Prep-ing the studs for the...

I'm about to try fly cutting on my lathe, (so far I've only done a bit of centre drilling, facing and turning) and so would like to run a stoopid test first :) The thing I'm making is the surface gauge from Harold Halls Lathework course book and I've reached the stage where it looks like the...

:bow: The bacon was a master stroke too

Looks nice rockets, It's thawing out now, so you can get some swarf on it ;D

Here you go New_Guy http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/PaKEh5wuhH14CGwNhlr15g?feat=directlink http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bqXW3i9IeCy_4WzQeFwglQ?feat=directlink http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/m31gHSmSmFl0uHN7UxuEmA?feat=directlink

New_Guy, The tail stock has a clamp to lock it to the bed and a clamp to lock the barrel in the tail. From memory the bed clamp acts on the gib strip. I'll take some pics tonight (before I have the Friday beer). You had to ask a question on the one part I didn't strip and clean didn't you! The...

Nick, I've only ever turned the viceroy on once - the motor isn't attached to the belt yet and the switch box is mounted inside the base, on top of the motor! It span up, went faster and faster and faster, which was interesting for ten seconds and then I chickened out. Its stored in my mums...

I've got two lathes, my first one is a Denford Viceroy, but I can't fit it in my garage so I haven't used it yet. My second is an ML10, smaller and neater http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JQ-5V2JI86KZmU6uGYSOuQ?feat=directlink and here is how it shoehorns into the garage :-[...

Rockets, I'm at the very bottom of the learning slope at the moment and have just started using the Harold Hall book, I'm on the first project (surface gauge). I have found the book to be easy to follow with clear but detailed instructions, the prose is conversational rather that strict - do...