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  • Show me your metal lathes…
  • sv
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    At home/model ones although work ones are fine too although lathe envy might follow 🙂

    Also what projects/bits n bobs have you turned out on them?

    dogbert
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    christ I thought I was bad wandering into B&Q to window shop

    **sarcasm obviously – watches this thread intently** 😀

    Northwind
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    I’ve got one of these fine devices:

    (not mine- mine has a replacement motor and is missing some of the add-ons.)

    Basically, it’s a scale model of a lathe- surprisingly useful but limited in the size of work it can cope with, and the bed’s a wee bit flexy. But then, it’s as old as my dad, and unlike a proper full size lathe/mill it fits in my garage.

    I’ve not made much from scratch with it- mostly things for the lathe in fact! Mostly it just gets used to repair/modify existing stuff.

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    IanMunro
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    Right just finished dinner, and gone over to the shed.
    This is mine – a Warco WMT300. A fairly generic Chinese lathe/mill combo. Spent a bit of money replacing the original single phase motor with a variable speed digital one, which has made it much more pleasurable to use.

    Currently just finishing making a Scott Vacuum engine.

    Just need to build a gas burner for it, and do a bit of fettling.

    montylikesbeer
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    man toys

    Davesport
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    Smart & Brown from before the war 8)

    Headset press. Inch & an eight or Taper.

    Nipper99
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    Northwind – what make is your lathe.

    Northwind
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    Oh, sorry, should have said. It’s a Unimat SL.

    camster
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    HI,

    I have recently inherited a Unimat

    Would be an ideal man toy for a model engineer or for making bike lights when I can get around to flogging it on Ebay etc.

    My dad used to have a c100 yr old massive lathe in the garden shed but that went years ago.

    We planned to make a model engine but it never quite happened.I made a small brass canon, that was it.

    camster
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    Oops, photos issues

    trout
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    a Smart and Brown here also

    and apart from lights I made these headset reducer races

    Davesport
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    Hey Trout ! 😀 Has your lathe got a date of manufacture on it anywhere ?

    D.

    shandcycles
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    Nearly bought this but it wouldn’t fit in the car.

    trout
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    Hi Davesport
    Nope just had a good furkle round and only what looks like a serial number in the door of the Gearbox .

    JohnB
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    Harrison L5 with Norton screw cutting gearbox.


    This is boring the lower ball joint housing for the wishbones on my Morris Minor. the lathe got so much use when building the car.

    Bike related stuff: Light housings (from some old Santa Cruz down tube), headset spacers, seat post spacers, caliper mouting spacers, parts to push bearings in and out of hubs, headset bottom plate hammering on tube etc etc .

    Not sure what I would do with out the lathe.

    sv
    Full Member

    Do feel one would come in handy, camster I sent you an email.

    camster
    Free Member

    SV you have mail

    bencooper
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    My shop setup:


    New machining setup by Ben Cooper, on Flickr

    spchantler
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    not me but my friend doug briggs. he builds accordions and made this super 8 film.

    TuckerUK
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    I’m dribbling here (ex. auto lathe setter), always wanted one at home…hopefully will get there one day

    This is mine – a Warco WMT300.

    I think that’s what I was looking at getting, just large enough to reface car brake discs I think?

    nixie
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    bencooper, what model is yours ?

    IanMunro
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    just large enough to reface car brake discs I think?

    Possibly. You should be able to face something up to about 300mm, which I guess would rule out larger discs.
    There’s a similar Chinese lathe out there with a taller headstock that could accommodate greater diameters though.

    porter_jamie
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    harrison m300, with dro. i wonder how i would manage without it!

    bencooper
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    bencooper, what model is yours ?

    It’s a Sherline…

    Russell96
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    Damm proper Man cave stuff

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