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Thread: Urgent - opinions of lathe I am going to view/buy
02/09/2021 19:38:25
Posted by Andy Thompson 3 on 02/09/2021 16:08:24:

Thanks for quick reply. If it is a school model was hoping it had less wear. Can't tell if that is original paint or a bodge. It is 3hr drive further north so not easy to nip up and assess.

If it were a schools model "T" it would not have a leadscrew. Only the A B & C models were equiped with a lead screw.

regards

02/09/2021 19:35:00
Posted by Bob Worsley on 02/09/2021 18:59:27:

Wow, what do you expect for £750, brand new!

Look at it. Got the 127 tooth metric gear, that is expensive. Look at the tumbler reverse gears, are the teeth still as wide as the gaps, so not worn. Screw the two chucks on, not tight, but enough to be able to pull on them to see if headstock wear. Rotate the chucks slowly and feel for any graunching, and in back gear.

Move the cross slide, press a finger tip against the slide whilst rocking the feedscrew, as you increase the amount of movement then wait until your finger tip can feel the slide moving. Finger tips are extremelty sensitive for this. Repeat on top slide, but it would normally be much less worn. Rock the carriage with the handwheel, there will be at least 10 or 20 degrees of slop, it is a gear into a rack, but feel if it is graunchy up near the headstock compared with the other end.

Power it up if possible, how noisy is it in all speeds, but just one in high gear and one in backgear will tell you most of what you want. Are you familiar with the noise a lathe makes at 700rpm? Pretty noisy, but not ear muff noisy. Put the feeds in and out, forward and reverse, noisy?

Does the tailstock barrel move smoothly?

Look at the bed in front of the headstock, how many times has the chuck been dropped on it. The bed uses raised Vee ways, look at the state of them. Look for signs that they have hacksawed stuff off in the chuck and overshot and hit the bed. Hopefully hardened so any wear in the saddle which can be scraped out.

Just stand back and look at it, is it twisted, are the cabinet panels all straight and undented.

In the end you have got most of a lathe, two new chucks but probably not Burnerd, the cabinet is a lot of money, and making a good bench isn't so easy.

If you can run it and sounds ok then easily worth that money. If you can't run it then have to look at the pulleys and motor, have a good sniff, if burnt out then the smell lingers for ages. My guess is that it was used for turning down commutators or something like that, certainly not model engineering, hence the grubby look. Boxfords are like South Bends, good basic lathes.

 

You cannot get this lathe into back gear as the lever/button is missing. Also the halfnut lever is on the wrong way round. I have refurbed' many Boxfords and this one is about as bad as I have seen.

regards

Edited By Oldiron on 02/09/2021 19:44:47

02/09/2021 18:37:19

This one hs been messed about with quite a bit. I would give it a miss. As said the missing lever on the headstock front is used in conjunction with the back gear so that is probably tattered or even been removed. All the parts are available but pricey. I would not give more than £350 for this one even if it has little wear.

regards

Thread: Design Award
18/08/2021 13:19:58

I use a one step ladder often.It can be used in the middle of a room as well. It has another name though. Chair.

regards

Thread: Lathe gear problem..help please!
17/08/2021 16:47:54

Mmm no reply from the OP for 2 weeks so he must have got the info he needed.

regards

Thread: Hello from Leeds
17/08/2021 16:44:04

Hi Neil. Welcome to the forum. Many questions have already been answered. Try doing a search in the forum and you may get lucky and get the info you need. If no luck just ask away.

regards

Thread: Keeping the workshop cool
15/08/2021 16:03:48
Posted by Calum Galleitch on 22/07/2021 14:07:31:

You might consider those ice-cooler machines from on Amazon - if you search for air conditioning and look at the ones that are far to cheap to believe, most of them work by cooling air in melting ice, and you can usually acquire sacks of ice from a supermarket for a pound or two. Probably the cheapest solution for a few days a year; if you're overheated all summer then a proper AC unit would be the way to go. I wonder if you could get one from a scrapped vehicle? Those are designed to cool smallish spaces, but with much more heat input, so might be quite efficient.

I bought one of those and it was a total failure. Complete waste of time. At 25C outside temp I could not get it down more than 1 degree. Gave to a friend to try out and he had the exact same problem. I also bought a small 12v model for the caravan and that too was a waste of around £200 a few years ago at Crick boat show.

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Thread: Consequences of Machining Cast Iron
13/08/2021 09:17:31

Just a little aside to this topic. We have a caravan with a S/S ? sink in the kitchen area. When I laid it up for the winter a couiple of years ago I left a bottle of Fairy Liquid sitting upright in the sink. It sat there through the winter for about 3 months. There must have been a smudge or drip of the contents onto the surface where the bottle sat. When I got the van ready for the season I found a small hole in the bottom of the sink and an obvious ring of corrosion around it where the bottle had been sitting. Just goes to show you never know what is in any product you buy however harmless it seems.

regards

Thread: Nu-tool Milling Machine
10/08/2021 22:09:43

Around £350-£400 for this RongFu lookalike. Probably the 20 or 25 model. Good solid machine I have the Ajax MD version.

regards

Thread: self catering v independent
03/08/2021 13:12:33
Posted by Michael Gilligan on 03/08/2021 10:05:15:

I nominate your thread title for the Typo of the week, Eric

devil

Oh the joys of predictive text.

regards

Thread: Where is my Post on England oiler can ??
28/07/2021 09:11:30

Hi. If you click on "More Latest Posts" at the bottom of the "Latest Posts" and scroll down you wil find it. Only so many posts show in the list and they are replaced by new posts so your original post dissapears down the list.

regards

Thread: Boxford BUD Tool Post
27/07/2021 17:10:26

I agree with others that say you do not appear top have a Boxford compound. All Boxford compounds I have seen have a radius on the front. My AUD measures a tad over 25mm (1" I imagine) of clearance from spindle centre to top of compound.

regards

Thread: AA batteries
27/07/2021 16:58:38
Posted by Peter Spink on 27/07/2021 13:58:59:
Posted by Grindstone Cowboy on 26/07/2021 23:11:22:

Some rough measurements using digital calipers . . .

Do you now have lots of flat batteries? devil

exactly what I was thinking. devil

regards

Thread: Sieg SX2 or SX2.7
08/07/2021 15:13:04

+1 for biggest you can fit & afford. In a little while it wil be too small. devil

regards

Thread: Scrap aluminium for casting
07/07/2021 22:24:59
Posted by Peter Ellis 5 on 07/07/2021 20:34:36:

Why do I get a message saying my browser doesn´t support cut and paste ? Of course it supports cut and paste. I use it every day.

Cheers

Peter

Peter you need to use Ctr C & Ctr V in this forum. )

regards

edit spacing

Edited By Oldiron on 07/07/2021 22:25:41

Thread: Anyone know what is going on at Homeworkshop?
05/07/2021 17:09:52

Opened ok for me @ 17:09

regards

Thread: Link to Arc and Chronos sites errors
04/07/2021 11:20:50
Posted by John Hinkley on 04/07/2021 09:24:26:

Paul,

Both links work with no problems for me using Firefox 89.0.2 64-bit on Windows 10. Maybe something in your set up.

John

+1 regards

Thread: Stone moving machine
04/07/2021 11:03:23

I read that article a few minutes ago. It is a very intersting hypothesis. We have all moved heavy items using a rocking motion so it would work. Not sure if I would want to move 50 odd ton rocks with it. As pgk said it would be pretty unstable over undulating or very soft ground.

regards

 

Edited By Oldiron on 04/07/2021 11:03:54

Thread: Mystery DTI
02/07/2021 16:41:29

Commonly know as a back plunge indicator. Very handy item.

regards

Thread: Apkt size?
30/06/2021 17:14:43

Probably. You should measure across corners on one long edge not the diagonal as you show here.

regards

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