Member postings for Paul Martin

My lathe is a 6" colchester student without the quick change gearbox. So i need change wheels, which it never came with.

I've decided one of my first tasks is to make the wheels to produce M8, M10 and M12 threads.

I would like to make them sacrificial for a few reasons, but my question is..

What materials would anyone suggest?? I have just been looking a Tufnell properties after seeing a Youtube video but not sure on performance.

Does anyone have any experience with this or anything else suitable?

Thanks, Paul

Again, thank you for the welcomes.

Neil, the RE isn't what it used to be, unfortunately.

Steve, I'll be going back to do advanced and Some mig as soon as they let me.

Thanks for the welcomes, very much appreciated.

I work with your REME mob a lot Rik as I'm RE and armoured, so breaking down is absolutely my business .

I'm going to look at fitting touch DRO to the mill, and then later the lathe too.

I am hoping to set this up, I have been reading about it, but I have no electronics knowledge at all to build the Bluetooth sender unit.

Good morning and Hello, I am currently in the process of retiring from a long career in the Army, engineering has been an interest of mine for years From afar. I have re-rolled my garden sheds ready for when I have more time on my hands. I have made one into a welding bay and enlisted myself onto a TIG course at Leeds college of building (I last left there in 1993 as a trained joiner). And the other currently has a 1979 Myford VMC mill in there, and is waiting for me to work out how to collect and move a Colchester student in too. I have never used these these machines before, but I am very confident I will enjoy it.

I hope to speak to you all in time and gain your advice and knowledge.

Regards, Paul