Member postings for dave george 1

a big thanks to JA he's helped me out on the spherical ball turning drawing

much appreciated

thanks dave

if this aint the correct section of the forum please can you move to the correct place tia

im after a couple of hemmingway drawings,sent them a email last month but still not heard nothing

has anyone got any hemmingway drawings that they can supply me please

the ones im after are

set over centre and sensitive tailstock attachment and spherical turning tool

thanks

ive put some more pictures in my album

this is what lathe looked like before i started

made a electrolisis bath using washing soda and water

this is after 24 hours

this is the cross slide and a damaged t-slot all after a quick scrape

this is after a week

a jet wash and a scrape here and there

all the bright work before polishig

this is after polishing using a dremel rotary tool

the lathe has a coat of zinc phosphate primer im gonna give it another coat then paint it

all comments welcomed

thanks for the heads up comment john

i think i know what you saying

basicly the tailstock should be already true in-line with the headstock

if you want to do tapering,remove the bolt that holds the top and bottom of tailstock,then remove the back pin/dowel

offset the taper you need,then nip it up using the bolt that clamps it to the lathe bed,when you finished tapering,undo the clamping bolt,put the back pin/dowel back in,then put the other bolt that holds them together back in,and off you go with parallel turning

is this correct ??

sorry for sounding like a numnut

@ neil i only recieved this lathe december that gone,so it couldnt have been me

also do you think i should create a thread,about this project that im doing, like a before and after

i got a few photo's of various stages,using electrolisis bath,polishing all the bright stuff,like ball handles,handwheel on tailstock etc

thanks

thanks for your comments guys, neil where have you seen these photos ???

on tonys site http://www.lathes.co.uk/grayson/index.html it shows the back of tailstock like a small

long t bar,which i presume moves it forward and backwards or lock it in place,but if the square bolt

was taken away,the tailstock would lose it setting everytime you slacken the bolt to move the tailstock,

i just cant get my head around it,if you did some tapered turning you would have to remove the square bolt

then tighten up with the bolt that holds it onto the lathe bed ???

i did see a grayson lathe on a auction site,and i sent the guy a message about the tailstock and this is what he said to me

the usual LH thread & the anti-turn pin/grub screw is through the top. Nothing else comes apart, the only adjustment on it the hex screw for holding it down

im confuse more to this as it has no thread anywhere apart from the two bolt holes

dont bother with dropbox link,ive added photo's to my album

thanks for the welcome guys

ive created a album,as i couldnt see it when i signed up using mobile

hi all,ive been given a grayson lathe to restore,ive stripped it all down,made an electrolisis bath and put everything of the lathe in there,got the lathe back to bare metal and gave it all a coat of zinc phosphate primer.while i was priming the tailstock i noticed they wasnt any grub screws to off-set the tailstock,so that when i started googling and came across a thread a few years ago on here

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=79515

now this thread hasnt been updated,and wondering if the guy got it sorted,as i seem to have the same problem

ive been racking my brains about it,whether it had a plate inside the tailstock to move it left or right and up and down,but i noticed in the tailstock they are 3 tapered slots,and a bolt going thru it all to hold it all together,making it type of a fixed tailstock,the other bolt hold is to hold the tailstock onto the lathe bed

also ive been in touch with tony from lathes.co.uk and he couldnt help me,ive spoke to a few old timers engineers (70-80 year old) and they didnt have a clue

please take a look at the pictures and see what you think

thanks

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mdqaivorprrukw9/AADzCiXUkJY83jPjqDgunL9La?dl=0

hi all just joined,and hopefully that someone might be able to help me

i found this site while googling my answer to my rebuild problem

i will start a new thread on this rebuild subject

thanks for having me