Let's See Your Lathe
Here is my lathe, A colchester Student Roundhead Mk1, and a link to the slideshow of it being rebuilt. There was quite a collection of parts loose in the bottom of both gearboxes, but by some miracle it still worked, but it worked a lot better when they were identified, and put back where they should have been! At some point in the future I will change the spindle bearings, as I have a replacement, which is, I suspect, a lot better than the ones it has at the moment. The tell tale was the grey stain running out of the bearing drain hole when I flushed with white spirit, and the fact that the end float has clearly been adjusted with a hammer and punch! Having said all that, it works very well considering the abuse it has obviously suffered.

https://www.youtube.com/user/philhermetic/


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Man who say it cannot be done should not disturb man doing it! https://www.youtube.com/user/philhermetic/videos?
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Very nice. Smiley-eatdrink004
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Looks good!
Logan 200, Index 40H Mill, Boyer-Shultz 612 Surface Grinder, HF 4x6 Bandsaw, a shear with no name, ...
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Thanks for the kind words chaps! It is a pleasure to use , and now that I have put a few little scratches in it, it's mine again!! I have a temporary halogen light above it, but I will take some more pics when I get the original machine light back on it.
Phil, UK
Man who say it cannot be done should not disturb man doing it! https://www.youtube.com/user/philhermetic/videos?
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This is a couple of pictures of my Craftsman Atlas Lathe 

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I couldn't take in any longer being without a lathe so as a temporary solution I ordered this one this evening. I'll get the keeper in the fall. Any lathe is better than no lathe. Yikes

Ed

   
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Show off! Mine is only 10 inches. And it's GREEN. smiley_laughing
Willie
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I have an older 7x12, it's yellow.
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My first lathe was a HF 7x10 so this will be an upgrade from that at least. Big Grin

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I checked the status of my order yesterday morning and on the web page for the lathe I found this message which I hadn't seen when I placed the order.

"Important Information

   Item made to order. Average time to ship is 3 weeks with a maximum of 13 weeks.
"  Yikes

I decided to wait another day and see what happened. This morning when I checked the status of my order it said it had shipped.  Thumbsup

Tracking says it should be here tomorrow.  Smiley-dancenana

Ed
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