Member postings for Steve Richardson 2

Thanks for the tips on posting images and fixing mine. forgot about passwords....

Just just blown away by how willing and helpful you guys are with all your information and knowledge.

John - thanks re the tip on the castings and the locking screw, I have a few old electronic copies of ME and have got one article by George Thomas on modifications he did, so I might consider doing some of what he had done.

I am a member of a couple of the Yahoo groups (Tom Senior and the pantograph group) but have not yet joined the DW group. I do have an early Westbury machine plus a couple of others.

thanks

Steve

Hi All,

Have just rejoined after a long while not posting (but browsing) and not being able to log in.

I think its called a Dore Boring Head but google brings up lots of images if you call it a Westbury boring head.

I recently came a cross some casting kits at a sale (when buying and old pantograph) and it was unexpected to find a Stuart 10h kit along with a kit for the Dore boring and facing head.

Main issue at the moment is that I have no construction plans for the boring head, just a box of casting. While I could probably cobble it together, it would be useful to know roughly what sizes things were meant to be. I have looked around for plans but not finding much available or and suggestions on how best to approach the machining as I dont think you can by replacement bits if something isn;t done right.

I was pointed to Reeves model engineers who have plans for the westbury boring head but at $43 approx to post to me I figured that was just too much and so thought I might try ask here if anyone has made one or has some old plans they could share to help with the build. the kit is bottom right in the image.

Cheers
Steve

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Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 18/09/2020 14:52:10

Hi All,

While I tend to browse regularly its been a long while since i posted, So long infact that my old log in would not work and no email to moderators would work or get a response to do manual reset.

Even when setting up this new account I still didn't get the promised email but it seemed to log me in, so here I am.

I do all sorts of work, welding blacksmithing milling and turning, have been doing it for a long time in my spare time.

Main reason to rejoin at the moment is that I came across some old casting kits and have a few questions. So will post in hopefully the relevant forum.

Cheers

Steve