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Normal shed on the outside. Light and airy on the inside. Nice.

Try living out here!

Anything, and i mean anything that i touch in the workshop, when finished with, gets a wipe down with an oily industrial kitchen roll sheet, kept always to hand. I'm talking machine tools, beds, chucks, hand tools, Allen keys etc etc. Oil used is either slideway oil or hydraulic 68 (same difference). And it works.

Miss the above, just once, and the following day whatever i have touched is rusting nicely.

In the real world who cares about 5 degrees of thread angle.

3/16" to 3/8" BSW and UNC could and should screw into one another. I often tap UNC and fit a BSW fastener and vice versa. 7/16" up it all changes TPI wise. Unfortunately.

+1.

Doubleboost, Abom 79, and Keith Fenner, Oxtoolco.

All entertaining, informative and interesting.

Oh, and we have genuine Aloe Vera plants everywhere. Now that really is a marvel of nature. Break a piece off, and inside is almost like a clear jelly composition, cools and sooths almost instantly on burns etc.

Out in the fields here, they use rolling tobacco on a bad cut, say on a finger or hand. Stems the bleeding very quickly and allegedly acts as some sort of "Savlon"....

Change the name of the magazine to Home Shop Machinist...

(Or basically take the "model" out of the title).

# The Great Shrine to Bling...

# Is there a Concors D'elegance class for post WWII original British milling machines?

# The grey one in the above pic - looks nothing wrong with that to me.

# The original TS green restored one in the above pics - i'd be too scared to use it and get it dirty. Presumably photos taken prior to useage...

# As per my previous post, whilst the thing is in pieces prior to repainting, i'd have got some keyways machined and fitted to the clamp castings and a long keyway machined on the ram for keeping tram and being able to move the ram further forward to give you a larger work envelope for that odd big job.

# My M1 unfortunately has the S head fixed to the Z dovetails, and for boring out bearing housings on m/c wheels etc, i run out of room. I've done disc brake mount mods on a 17" wheel rim, just, with difficulty, and one day, will get round to making an adapter for the head where i can fit in a 19" wheel on a table extension,and do brg housing mods without dismantling the wheel.

I am a Luddite, and used to be unwashed and proud... Now i'm married i'm still a Luddite, but unfortunately now un-unwashed...

That's 'coz it is S&B's version of the Southbend model 9. Apparently, very nice bits of kit.

Bison (Dickson clone) - excellent. Had mine on my Boxford for 13 years. Genuine tool holders are not cheap, but they are good, and hard. Made another 16 myself, photos in my album.

Chinese wedge type (Aloris clone)- would be my other alternative. Not the piston push out type.

From the various cheap(ish) QCTP varieties, these two are the only options IMO.

Or make the whole thing yourself, there are various designs on the net, Sir John's and the MLA design in particular spring to mind.

The belt and pulley housing with 2 access doors left and right is alloy. Look nice polished a la Bridgeport....

A man after my own heart...

Watched it yesterday before i read this thread. One of his funnier videos. I enjoy a lot of his stuff, foibles, warts and all.

Thats what i mean. So for a bigger job say, you want to move the round ram forwards, you are going to lose tram on the head, and have to recheck everything. Unless there are scribed marks or similar for a rough but not precise positional check. But no keyway.

Edited By thaiguzzi on 20/08/2016 03:54:31

I've got a 73 M1 with the S type vertical head. I've always liked the Light Vertical because of that round ram the vertical head attaches to, which presumably moves fore and aft. I presume the round bar is not keyed in location by the look of the photos and the head is swivelled as per normal Senior method at the front?

The things that put me off the LV compared to an M1 was the lack of power feed and coolant as std from the factory.

# Fingers box is full of punches and chisels. Thankfully.

# The first 2 were sawn as a pair. After that, not shown, was one at a time as my pre war Denbigh told me she preferred it that way. Who am i to argue...

I dare not even look at a new Dickson price! Last time i looked Bison holders were £30 odd quid upwards (plus VAT) for my T.1 size.

I've finally got round to adding a new album with some of the procedures, machining, and finished articles, these were from the first batch nearly a couple of years ago.

Made another 5 Dickson type toolholders for my Bison QCTP. Get 5 out of one slab with the 8" stroke on the Boxford shaper. T slot and dovetail style design are a doddle on a shaper, and i still only own slot drills, end mills, and a couple of slitting saws for my mill's armoury. No expensive dovetail or t slot cutters in sight.

To speed things up this time, i actually cheated and cut the slot for shank tooling on the mill. That was tedious the last time on the shaper.

Now up to 19 holders. I think i've got enough, one sits permanently empty for the odd special...

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Excellent - a proper geezer, and character, and very talented individual who always impressed me.