Member postings for Craig Brown

Depends on the job. Small parts hand feed but say 20mm+ then normally power feed. Start by hand to make sure nothing feels untoward and then engage the power feed. This is on a Boxford

Turned a slice of scrap 4" steel bar into the beginnings of a backplate for a new to me 6" 4 jaw chuck for my Boxford lathe

Made a couple of new hinges, for an antique wardrobe, to replace a well worn and broken one

Engine looks superb. Some top notch photography too

I was intrigued by this machine when it was first listed, its not something I recognise. I first thought it looked fabricated but now I'm not so sure, maybe the castings are just boxy. The head appears to have nod and tilt features, useful for tramming the machine aswel as angled work. Extendable ram, also useful. The table isn't very deep but plenty long. It does have a knee but doesn't look like it has a quill, not the end of the world, just makes drilling more tedious. The only real unknown is the spindle taper.

Those were my observations, it could be a useful machine but condition and quality are hard to tell from pictures. If the price is right then it might be worth a punt or I would want to have a look at it first

I put an extension on my house and didn't want to use thermalite blocks for much the same reason as you. I spoke to the building inspector who was happy for me to use solid concrete blocks, the considerations being the footings coping with the extra loading and still complying with the insulation requirements. For a workshop I can't imagine that there are strict requirements for insulation, but I'm not sure? So assuming you have a good footing I can't see there being a problem

Lovely piece of cabinet making!

Finished off a table to use my rebadged Femi bandsaw in the vertical position. Thanks to member JohnF for pictures and drawings of his

You could be forgiven for thinking it was a steel part, it was a brass item that had been plated. It fixes the plug strainer to the waste pipe on the sink. The plug slides in and out of the centre bore and it had seized in the old one and the screw snapped trying to remove it

Only 0.4KW. I knew I was surprised because its size is more like that of a 1.5KW

Spent a couple of hours making a part you can buy for £1

I seem to remember the KW of the motors being less than I was expecting for their physical size, maybe only 0.5KW (0.75ish HP), but I will check and get back to you.

I too was impressed by its mass for its size, they are an odd height though, when I commission mine I will be raising it slightly on a stand.

I can take some photos and dimentions of the horizontal support if you like, wouldn't be much work to make one.

Pete

I have one of these machines, they are quite a rare beast. Yours (assuming you purchased it) is only the third one I have seen online after some quite extensive research. Mine was sold by Excel in 1981, and is currently in storage awaiting restoration.

Be interested to know if you do own it to compare notes.

Cheers, Craig

Not sure what you mean by exploring the foothills Michael but I'm an industrial electrician by trade and whilst I don't claim to know everything, far from it in fact, I do work with drives and 3 phase on a day to day basis

Hello Alan

The motor is 3 phase as indicated where it says 3~

It can be run in delta at 220 - 240 volts but still 3 phase. Single phase to 3 phase inverters are my preferred method for this situation.

Hope this helps

I cant believe I have never come across this channel before, YouTube only seems to recommend me click bait and perpetual motion videos. Finally something new worth watching, enjoyable content, well presented with some impressive manual drafting

Thanks, looking at that image I should say thats exactly what they are. Not much use without the collet holder. If anyone has any use of these then let me know.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions so far. I did first think they might be an early version of an ER collet but, as mentioned above, they were the same as an ER collet in every way but just didn't have a slot. ER have an included angle of 16° whereas mine are 10°.

Again they look sort of similar to the TG collets but the dimentions don't tie up.

These are the Schaublin collets, I believe the marking to denote schaublin, they have a 20mm main body diameter and a bizarre specification of buttress thread. Thats why I think they are W20. I actually purchased them in the hope they were 3C so didn't do very well really.

I have acquired 7 collets with metric bores but im unsure what they are for. Their length is 45mm +/- 0.5mm. The main taper is 10° included and a nose taper of 60° included. There is a parallel section between both tapers of 10mm length, 24mm diameter. The slot is 3.9mm wide. There are no markings on them other than their bore diameter.

Does anybody have any ideas what these might be? If it's of any help they came with a quantity of what I believe to be Schaublin W20 collets.

Thanks, Craig

Edited By Craig Brown 2 on 08/10/2022 07:18:53

Turned a piece of 25mm down to 24mm, added a 10° taper and sunk a 10mm square drill into the end for the spanner. Just got to poke an M10 thread in the side to attach the 2 pieces and it's ready for service