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And what's wrong with Classic Battleship Grey????

Any old steel to hand will do. I've even got 5 in aluminium (ran out of steel stock)...

Amal now is not what Amal once was back in the day. Far, far superior today than back then. Chalk and cheese. Different alloy used, up to date machinery, better fits and tolerances, high quality components internally. Same co. owns SU too.

I presume because there is no current British motorcycle manufacturer left that uses Amal on a production machine, they don't have to be built DOWN to a price like back in the old days...

Got one on my Stent T&CG. Fixed speed. I can check rpm if anyone is interested. I do know with my largest pulley set up that it is a bit less than 6000 rpm, and my normal pulley set up around 3,500- 4000 rpm. Easy to wire fwd and reverse.

Oil guns, oil schmuns. Oil cans, oil schmans.

Jesus H. Buddha with Saffron Robes!! I just checked Wanner oil "guns" 'cos i did'nt know what they were, or looked like. £55-75 depending where you buy it from, over £100 for a lever operated one from Cromwells. That's more than twice the price of a Reilang can.

i have a Reilang, along with several other cans, ranging from 150 to 300 to 500cc. They all work on ball oilers...

Jeez, what is it with oil gun problem posts?

Last year bought 2 replacement no name Chinese oil cans (to replace decade old Euro/US ones), the type sold every where inc MMart, markets, etc, the type with a bendy see thru hose spout and a metal solid type. Both work perfectly. Oil only comes out where it should, ie the end. And the spout tips fit ball oilers perfect. I paid about £2.50 ea for them here in a local hardware shop, i doubt they are more than a fiver in the UK.

I do a fair bit of blackening steel. For consistent results use old used diesel oil. It's a better "black" and i've had inconsistent finishes with new motor oil.

I blacken purely for the anti rust side of things.

My 2 Baht's worth...

P4,

off topic, my 89 Cali III is also very non std. God's Gift to motorcycling was the Moto Guzzi v twin...

regards,

Mike.

P4,

yes, that is a Denbigh. I've had it probably since the late 80's, and it was the only saw in my commercial shop 88-03 back in England. It has done a LOT of work. Still has the flat pulleys and leather drive belt to the saw, and normal vee belt off the single phase motor. It was tired when i bought it, is even more tired now, slop in various bushings, but it just keeps going. Drinks a lot of oil, hydraulics still work, and its a bit like a shaper - wants the oil gun on it all the time. Repainted it dark blue a few years ago, because i felt sorry for her, but mechanically have done virtually nothing to her in over 25 years.

Mine is a late (1979) S200 metric version and uses the 4 bolt vice bolted to t-slots. Lathes.co.uk site show this vice on the swivel box table version, though my box table is std. The machine however does have vertical power feed. Most Boxfords have the vice bolting directly to the box table with a central spigot/hole.

Original vices for Southbend and Atlas 7" type shapers are fetching $2-300 in the States. If you've bought a

Boxford 8"/Elliot 10M shaper over here sans vice, i'd imagine a good correct shaper vice is worth £100- £150. Far better than adapting some swivel base milling vice for the job, too tall and nowhere near as substantial.

My 2 Baht's worth...

Nice repair job. Sod originality...

Nice repair job. Sod originality...

Richard,

my Dickson type holders virtually completely done on the shaper in my albums. Nice work by the way.

Wot he said. 17 so far and counting...

# I have a '79 S200 Boxford (late metric version of the 8". Use it all the time. Only 2 regrets,

1. I prefer imperial dials but on a shaper it's no biggie.

2. Wish i'd got a bigger one. Something like an Elliot or Alba 10".

# Finish with a shear tool is something to marvel at. Even a great fly cut finish on a mill does not come close.

# Important thing with any shaper is making sure it has a table front support. Some of the very early models inc Atlas and Alba, did not have this detail, and without it, you can't really take proper cuts, as the box table will deflect under load.

# Some pics in one of my albums of my shaper working.

Not that old chestnut again John...

+1.

Me too, so good i went to see him again the following night. Munich 80 or 81 i think.

Some good posts on this thread re over restoration, and originality and patina.

Nah, probably the sort of people who have a Snap On top cab mounted on a Snap On roll cab, filled with every conceivable socket, and spanner, in every size, British, American, and Metric, by the brand names of Snap On, Mac Tools and Proto in that order. Oh, and a full set of Vise grips or "mole wrenches" too...

Atlas?