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As far as dolls house figures go the most of the cheap rigid ones are made in China. If you spent lots of cash making your model then don't spoil it by adding cheap figures.

For a living I made 1/12th scale models for museums and collectors worldwide, many of these models had figures made by artisans and they can be made and dressed to your requirements. I have made a few figures myself and still have some moulds for faces, hands etc.

Hello Stuart,

I'm also in the Midlands at Redditch, You sure have a lot of gear already but how are you going to fit it all in a 11X 6.5 ft shed and have any room to work? Your Garage will also soon get full if you are after two lathes as well. My shed is a 14ft & 8ft lean to and has four large vintage lathes inc a Holbrook, two Pittlers and a South Bend and leaving me just a small section of bench to potter about on

I still have the carton mine arrived in, very well packed with styrene inserts etc, the box is all in English telling the contents but no brand name, that will be only be found on the booklet inside due to multiple brands using the same supplier.

Edit:  I just looked at my amazon account, brand is VEVOR BS-0 with 5" chuck , I bought it in Oct 2020 @ £215  so current price on there is £226 so hardly gone up considering.

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There are lots of these around under different brand names, all probably from the same factory in China.

I have one with a 5" chuck, it seems reasonably well made considering the low price, the only thing I found was with the backlash adjustment which needed fiddling with every time I used it.

Here is the test report that came wit it

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An email from who ? Don't click it, they will ask for your bank details. hover your mouse over the ' proceed' button and it should highlight where the link goes

Edited By vic newey on 30/11/2022 09:53:39

Re the grandfather clock, you say it runs for a few days and then stops? During my travels when working in peoples houses ( not as a clock repairer) I often came across clocks that the owner said would not run for long. In many cases I spotted why it would not run properly and it was nearly always because it was out of level.

If it's a pendulum clock then you have to be certain it's absolutely level and listen to the ticking and put packing under the clock to get it level, It's hard to describe what I mean without sounding comical but you should get an nice even tick tock sound and if it's only slightly out of level you can get a tick ta tick sound which will lead to the clock stopping.

I remember one lady had a nice Grandfather clock with a painted face and moon phases etc. It ran for years but stopped when my husband died she said. I'll have a look when I've finished my work I said and she was thrilled.

As soon as she had gone out I ran to have a look and when I opened the case I saw there was no mechanism! nothing other than the dial and a couple of cogs holding the hands. The pendulum and weighs were fixed to a piece of wood so they hung in the right place and were visible when you opened the door.

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It seems to be the same type, however I did search first and no threads come up for "two die chuck" (other than mine now)

Mine is as supplied with a backplate threaded 8tpi for the lathe mandrel

Edited By vic newey on 25/11/2022 14:00:47

This unusual 3" chuck was originally supplied with my German Pittler lathe from 1895, the catalogue lists it as a two die chuck.

The makers mark is a crown but not sure who the maker was if anyone knows? the only other marking on it is 1" so it's imperial as is the other 3 jaw chuck supplied as standard but made by Cushman USA

Edited By vic newey on 25/11/2022 11:15:03

A Drummond Admiralty model it seems

I would not risk buying it based on looking at a photo, it's odds on that it will be faulty and the indicator needle will not return to zero, particularly if it's been unused for decades.

I must have a number of these obtained in mixed lots from auction and several don't return to zero every time, particularly if you release the pointer slowly. I tried using watchmakers oil on a couple of them but still they tend to stick just short of zero

They don't actually give you the hearing aids, they only are on loan, if you lose one you may well be asked to pay a replacement fee. In fact at our audiology clinic a sign tells you to add the aid to your house and holiday insurance as you may be charged for a new one if you lose it.

Since Covid made us wear masks I found it all too easy for the elastic loops to tangle and pull off an aid when removing the mask, after several near misses with mine inc one in a restaurant where the waiter found it under a table. I also have distorted hearing and in noisy places like shops or a cafe I turn the volume right down so i can sit in peace.

I started wearing a bandana instead of a mask which also is far more comfortable to breathe

I have a device that runs from the TV to my armchair via a small cable below the skirting board, there is a small pad that goes under my seat cushion, then using the NHS hearing aids telecoil I can hear the TV and adjust the volume on the device itself which is at the side of my chair. I could also run a wire round the entire room to create a loop and hear the TV anywhere in the room but have not felt the need to do that.

Edited By vic newey on 24/10/2022 22:29:09

Great fun, if that was mine the next move would be a ratchet mechanism to feed the caps through

Years ago when that sort of thing happened it was usually because the head gasket has blown

I remember those 1 in 4 steep hill signs very well!

Thank you guys for carrying on trying to sort this out for me, I'm afraid it's got a bit too technical for me to make sense of though, I'm really just a vintage lathe enthusiast who likes to potter around making minor repairs and adjustments rather than make any models or anything like that.

As you might gather I have no engineering background whatsoever but spent years as an effects painter for TV & film and before I retired I spent years as an architectural modelmaker working in wood and making models for museums and collectors worldwide. Doing all those models I never used any drawn out plans either!

I was rather hoping the taper might be a recognisable standard so I could seek out a drill chuck but it's looking rather unlikely at present

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Some later versions of my Pittler lathe have the tailstock fitted for 15mm collets with a drawbar, ones such as mine do not have the quill bored through.

von Pittler was a brilliant inventor and patented hundreds of machines in his lifetime inc his revolver capstan lathes which still exist today. I guess the taper for this didn't catch on although I need to find other C3 owners and see what they have for the tailstock

Edited By vic newey on 06/10/2022 10:24:09