Member postings for Joe Wardle

Good Afternoon All,

I acquired these great engines today all made by a local model engineer many years ago.

I have been told the boiler can be fired on coal or gas. I have not yet had the chance to look at it, only collected them today.

some pictures for you to enjoy. any information welcome, or if they are familiar to anyone.

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome Pete,

It certainly is a lathe and a half weighing in at 2000+kg for a relatively small capacity lathe. everything is so well engineered. Look forward to using it.

Joe

Hi Malc,

Yes it was a interesting read learning the history of the research station.

I know the run out is nothing to be sniffed at for a 70/80 yr old lathe.

Indeed it is quite a bulk, it actually weighs 2000kg. even cover plates on the cabinet are 3/4" thick cast. everything is very much over engineered.

I got a full collet set, 2 x 3 jaw chucks, 2 x 4 jaw chucks, 2 x faceplates, fixed steady. tapping head and other tooling with it.

I has a 3 speed motor coupled to a 2 speed gearbox.

cheers,

Joe

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I would share a pic of my new Holbrook C13 Lathe that i have bought to replace my Boxford AUD.

I am keeping this on 3ph powered by rotary converter, unlike the boxford which I converted to VFD.

I am in the process of cleaning up the Holbrook, I have drained all the oils and cleaned the sumps. fitted a new filter and oil hose and filled up with new oil. I need to refit the the indicator bulb lens covers. I will give everything a freshen up and tidy the paint work also.

The lathe was originally sold to the Post Office Engineering Research facility at Dollis Hill, this is where the worlds first programmable computer Colossus was made.

This model has plain bearings and from initial measurement on the spindle I have under 1/2 thou run out 0.00039" Obviously this should be better, but apparently the bearing adjustment is not the best nor easiest to do, lots of trial and error.

any other members use holbrooks

Cheers,

Joe