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Update …. The insurance money finally came through !!!!!! I’m overjoyed.

original bill was £895.20 to fix only the damage caused. Insurance would only payout about £700 of this, got a call from their assessor who said they’d not pay me directly as the third party but that the pallet company should honour the difference with petty cash … well, they did!!!.

transferred the money to TE-Bar this week.

paying extra for a paintjob & to have a dro fitted.

TE-Bar are a dealer for acu-rite & quoted me, it was onviously waaay out of my budget lol, The managing director laughed & said he told me it would be, he said “buy a chinese version & we’ll fit it, as an amateur it’ll do you just fine”.

The dro was posted to me in the week & the scales box was slightly bent, checked & all was fine, however, made me nervous of reposting on to TE-Bar in port talbot … i rang them & said i’d take a half day & drive it down to them.

this is how lovely they’ve been to me … managing director - “ I have a caravan in weston, im going there this sunday, how about i meet you in M4 services on my way home on sunday afternoon” …. Dro handed over safely yesterday.

paint finally going on today & tmrw, rebuild commences end of this week.

will update when i know more.

Noo

Edited By NooNoo on 16/08/2021 07:54:13

Very very top heavy, so much so that a professional pallet company dropped mine twice!

If you google the manual, it is available online for free so you can then print it out.

the manual is invaluable to setting the lathe back up when you put it back together.

TE-Bar engineering are rebuilding mine as we speak … & they left the bottom gearbox ON as they said it’s a real pain to reinstall

Just had a look at the lots, i quite fancy that titchy old tatty lathe, to do up as a xmas pressie for a mate, stop him asking me to machine stainless pistons for every motorcycle he buys lol, he can make them himself then 🤣👍

Thanks to Mr John C (above)

he kindly messaged me saying he had a full collet set for sale.

great price & in great used condition.

They turned up today & i couldn’t be more satisfied with them.

So thank you again sir 👍.

btw …. Anyone got a spare case ??? 🤣🤣

If you don’t ask, you don’t get 🤞🤞

Undercoated im just informed, topcoat paint now arrived in dove grey & raven colours, being sprayed end of the week or next week … told they can then start putting it back together. Happy days !

Mod edit: rotated pics.

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 03/08/2021 17:20:36

Wow, thank you Mr Parkin, that does indeed look like mine … guess i was nervous as there are no designation, markings, makers mark or stamp … nothing !

does yours have anything written on it ?

John C was kind enough to suggest i scotchbrite it cleaner & hopefully reveal something, but still nothing lol.

Edited By NooNoo on 03/08/2021 15:08:18

Cheers Emgee, what are you basing your assumption on? Do you have an EC chuck? Is it just the general look of it ?

Glad your guess agrees with mine, hopefully these pictures stay on as i messed it up first time like a numpty lol.

hopefully i’ll get a few more agreeing with you, i’ll start looking around to buy the collets then.

thanks again for your response.

Noo

Edited By NooNoo on 03/08/2021 11:39:44

Current state, taking a while, but doing it inbetween big jobs to keep cost to a minimum & so that yhey can do the maximum amount of refurb for the same money.

Like this sir?

got this chuck with my lathe, no collets came with it & I’d like to start collecting them.

what are your thoughts? Burnerd multisize? Thats my guess so far lol.

EC2-EC13 ?
there are no markings or designations anywhere on the chuck at all, it is fitted with D1-3 mount for a colchester bantam.

or … maybe its NOT a collet chuck & im barking up the wrong tree ?

The bantam was picked up by TE-Bar Eng. at 10am this morning.

being fixed … bent levers, crushed splashguard, motor check, rewire, dings stoned on slideways, new bed wipers, weld a broken mounting tab, legs straightened, re-true adjusting of head & tail alignment, a good spuce up & make sure ALL is working ready for service. about 2-3 weeks they say. They were wonderful chaps & so far i cannot recommend them enough.
pallet Co admitting liability, their NFU Mutual rep has contacted me & agreed with you guys that they’ll only pay up to £1300 a ton, but assured me that the company will make up the couple of hundred quid diff from petty cash.

stressful affair, but light at the end of the tunnel.

i have rewired the workshop ready for it & wired in new capacitors in the 3 phase converter to get it running again.

prepping for it’s return really….

Had TE-Bar come & inspect it, their quote for picking it up, repairing only the damage caused, rewiring & truing it all up with adjustments, checking all operations fully, checking accuracy (which they thought would be fine as there is so little wear) & dropping it back off is £746 + vat. They were lovely guys too, family owned !, made me feel a whole lot better about it, they said their only concern was if one of the oil holding gearboxes had a crack, they said highly unlikely but possible. Work would take 2 or 3 weeks & they could pick it up anytime once the nod is given.
so, Anyways, sent the quote to the pallet company …. “Because of cost, we have sent this to our insurance company, we will be in touch in due course”. It is what it is, will just have to wait now.

Edited By NooNoo on 16/06/2021 20:59:16

To answer a few posted questions ….

lathe cost me £1250

pallet company said if its 5 or 6 hundred, they’d pay out of the coffers, if more then insurance job.

i did initially intend reworking it myself over time, but am so livid with them for causing this, i said to them “if i did my job as badly as you’ve done yours, id not have a job”. I fix electronic tools & devices within the electricity supply industry, I also maintain all our machine tools & started my career as an electrical fitter building substations, so i do have the hand-skills & patience to do it ….. but i want them to pay for at least what they’ve done. It wasnt in this state when they picked it up, so i want it put right.

Booked an appointment for a lathe repair engineer from TE-Bar engineering to come & visit the lathe to give me a quote for repairing only the damage caused, 10th July, wish me luck lol.

hoping the insurance of the pallet company will pay for it.

also getting him to quote separately for a work over/check/setup & possibly a repaint, that id then pay myself on top

Which bit did you delete JasonB ? Cant even remember which bit is missing lol, old age doesnt come alone so i hear …Best i learn to not make this mistake again ….

Greetings people …

i have bought a colchester bantam, metric 20”. It belonged to a recently deceased gentleman whose son was clearing out his workshop to raise funds for his mum.

lovely machine in good mechanical condition but exceptionally cosmetically challenged. The chap who owned it had been ill a long time & it had basically sat unused in a damp garage for a good few years til it came to me.

here’s the killer …. The pallet company that were delivering it DROPPED IT! …. Only from pallet to floor …. Then again when it fell backwards onto the forklift when picked up! … devastated to say the least.

they have thankfully agreed to pay towards repairs and what have you.

i am genuinely thinking of treating myself (& it! Lol) to a professional rebuild …. Maybe not “fully”, but upto a budget perhaps …. Maybe saying i have £1500 or whatever & asking them to continue til my budget is used …. This is only a theory as it’s only been on my mind today to perhaps get quotes.

anyone have experience of having a rebuild professionally done? Or a quote? Or even a partial rebuild?

im not after “mint” but a repaint/full check over etc …. Like i say, i have put next to no thought into this & im hoping for your experiences.

will maybe ring TE-Bar as they are nearest me in south wales, Blue Diamond, Style Machine Tools, Unislide etc.

know any private individuals that do this? Any small independants? Deleted by Mods

anyways, just thinking out loud & hoping for some advice/poking in the right direction, or even personal experience really.

the pics are from yesterday after i’d cleaned it up a bit & unbent some levers …& before it was sent when in its original home

Edited By NooNoo on 23/05/2021 15:30:18

Edited By JasonB on 23/05/2021 15:44:13

Greetings lathe nerds, i need your brains !

just purchased a colchester bantam, it's not even here yet !

anything i should know about them ?

any foibles ? nuances ? annoyances ? peculiarities ?

anything i really should be buying for it ?

I'm SO excited.... can you tell ??

I've had success in the past with making it a "tight" fit rather than the tighter "press" fit & then using Delta Bearing Grade liquid number 22 to stick it in place, hasn't failed me yet in fairness, although i did also have reservations about the oil impregnation of the material i was sticking just like you Mr Pratt. you could always do a test piece maybe ?

just agreed to buy a lathe !! I'm overjoyed, it's exactly what I'm after.

just have to get it home now, will start arranging on monday.

colchester bantam, metric version, 20" (500mm) between centres, all original accessories included - both steadies, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, all spanners & keys etc.

comes with a QCTP and a good few holders & 2 sizes of faceplates with dogs.

it's grubby & clearly hasn't been used for a few years, oil change and a good service & I'm sure it'll be good to go.

excited !!!

can then sell my good old korean one that I've had for about 20 years.

Cheers Howard & yes, i have spent hours and hours on lathes.co.uk website over the years, bought two or three tools from links on it too, great website.

Thanks for the link ACW, thats the imperial one i was talking about earlier, looks good but doesnt tick all my boxes unfortunately.

Thanks for the welcome Mike E.

thanks all for the warm welcome, really hoping to find the lathe of my dreams.

and please do poke me with a stick every time any of you guys spot one in the wild 👍