Member postings for Drew Mason

Jason - The thread I was aiming for was 16tpi, but with the 24 / 200 / 45 tooth arrangement that is fitted to the machine it came out way off, I didn't measure it as I knew whatever the case, it wasn't right. Someone probably had a method to it, but its turned out a bit of a pain and expense to me!

DC31K - Hopefully I can sort out some original gears (and I think I have a lead on what I need which would be nice, but its going to hit me nearly £100). I'll certainly pursue your suggestion should i find myself in a pickle though, thanks for that! With regard to your 2nd post, the manual says the original set-up is 21T driver, 200T intermediate and 42/35T driven gears.

Ian - my plate isn't the same as yours. Mine is all in one block (no extra line/mention of 42T)

Thanks for the input!

Old Mart - Thanks, I'm be happy to help where I can, but there are some far 'farter smellers' on here than me! I'll try and post some of my work and projects on here rather than just ask silly questions!

Brian - Thanks! If you ever need anything I might be able to help with, you're welcome to pop over.

Magpie - Fantastic photo! You don't want to be sat up there for the push start though! What's your name? And what was the car's name? Looks competitive for the day. I knock around with a couple of guys that were involved in top fuel racing from that period. Do you still have the car or any parts left from your racing?

Steviegtr - Thanks, Sounds like a funny car to me! There's a bit of a crowd funding going on at the moment to try and save York as a drag strip (Or now called Melbourne raceway).

Home workshop consists of -

Bridgeport J2 Vari-drive through a 3phase convertor

Colchester Student Mk1 w/single phase motor

Boremasters Tip-Lap tool grinding machine

Migatronic Pi200 AC/DC Tig

Edwards 4ft folder

Unknown 4ft treadle guillotine

Clarke 195Te Mig

Small wheeling Machine

Hilmor Rotary Tube bender

Northern tool roller/folder/guillotine

Lots and lots of smaller tools/fixtures/equipment

Hi all,

Firstly, glad to finally join the forum after years of lurking! I found myself tonight questioning a situation with my student lathe and thought 'right, its time....;

The lathe was an eBay purchase and definitely has a 'history'. I've put off doing any screw cutting with it until tonight as I have access to better machines at work on the rare occasion I need to do any. At some point I had to have a crack and see how it got on, but to my frustration (definitely not suprise), I found that it didn't cut a TPI as I wanted it to. After stripping off the change gear cover I found that is runs a 24T drive gear, through a 120T intermediate gear, to a 45T driven gear, with no other spare gears at all. Balls.

My first question to myself is, why? The lathe has a very nice selection of pitch options as standard! It just seems like hard work working anything out now. I see companies selling aftermarket gears give plenty of options so I must be missing something here (usually the case).

My second question is, would anyone out there have a set of original 42/35/21T gears that they would part with? Or even just a 21T gear?

Many thanks in advance!
Drew

Hi all,

Drew here, 29 years old and from Loughborough, I have a huge interest in Mechanical Engineering in all forms, with my main focus being in nostalgia drag racing, in which I take an active part in building and updating race cars.

I work as a fabricator/welder/machinist during the day within a Design school, and work in my home workshop in the evenings. My home workshop is pretty well equipped but I'm working with mainly older equipment so I may pester now and again for a more experienced opinion on how to approach certain problems!

Really glad to be here and soak in some knowledge!