Member postings for Steven Durnford

Oh, and the floor colour was free paint, can't be too choosy

Many thanks for the pics John, very helpful. The only plaques that I have on it are Carriage Direction, A-B-C, Feeds In Out, and one on the top end belt guard showing belt direction. The only other witness holes from other plaques are on the front of the lower front guard, the left hand side of the headstock cupboard, top right above door on headstock cupboard, and the one on top of the lead screw gearbox. So if the number stamped in the bed isn't the serial number then I can't really date mine. The chuck speeds were faster than the legends on your Spindle Speeds plaque, so I've sourced a slightly smaller motor pulley, just as well because there was a bit of belt rub inside the guard so I guess it needed it anyway. I've attached a pic to show the 'height adjustment' plate under the headstock gearbox.

As an aside, regarding finding anything out about Denham, my next refurbishment is going to be a Walker Turner drill press, that has no serial number either. Through old manufacturer catalogues, I've managed to date it (1937-38), find out exactly what model it is, original purchase price, but also that when it was new it never came with an electric motor as standard, that was an extra!

Here's mine at the moment, just a few small detailing jobs left to do now. The only differences That I can spot between ours is that mine has a slightly longer saddle, (I have a lead screw cover missing on the left but would like to make a lead screw indicator dial to fit here), I also have a 1" plate that is under the headstock gear assembly gearbox to increase the swing, I'm pretty sure that this is a factory modification because the end of the plate looks like it was from a casting and that the tail stock base casting is an inch taller to compensate.

As I said, when I got it the whole cross slide assembly was absolutely horrible, totally wrong. I managed to get the present cross slide from a scrap yard, but I needed to mill out the dovetail in width, make up a gib strip and machine up a new bronze cross slide nut. The lower worm screw assembly in the saddle gearbox was seized up due to rust, this was an absolute nightmare to get out, lots of head scratching on that one, but got there in the end and the power feeds work fine.

Thanks for that John, much appreciated. Here's the serial number position on mine, quite clearly stamped.

Yes, I'm looking for images for the brass legend on the right of the lead screw gearbox, I have the 'Carriage Direction' one, also the 'A-B-C' one. I'm also looking for an image of the 'Gear combination' as that is missing too and I'd like to make something vaguely silmilar. I have the one on the saddle side as well but that's all.

i've read your account of your Denham refurbishment several times over, it has been invaluable really as when I was given mine (by a very kind donator) it was in it's bulk component parts and had seen several years outside under an old tarp. The cross slide, compound slide and tool post combo had been cobbled together from old parts and scrap, not a pretty sight at all. So thanks for posting a very informative account of you rebuild, interesting and helpful.

My serial number is stamped clearly into the bed, above it is also a Crown stamp with four numbers under that, and if I could workout how to post a picture on here I have one to show

Steve

Hi John,

Mine is on the tail end of the bed, on the top front face.

Also, does anyone else on here have a Denham Junior lathe? I'm after some images of the various brass legend plates that should be on there, most of mine are sadly missing.

I am close to finishing the rebuilding of a Denham Junior lathe that I was given, it did require some serious work to do, but we likes free. My question is, does anybody have any information regarding dating the machine from its serial number? I have the brief information from www.lathes.co.uk, but was hoping that there was more out there to enable me to identify mine more exactly as numerically it is newer than the open end of lathes.co.uk's list. Thanks for any help given.