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Hello All,

Just thought I would drop a thank you to all on this thread, for the wealth of info on here. I've joined the EW club in the last week on the basis of the info here for my first steps into lathe machining.

And of course, like Stephen last year, having just bought one, I went and bought another. There's a lot of rust and crud to clean off this one which also came with the half grandfather clock bolted onto the banjo mounting plate. I think my plan is to eventually set up one for turning & screwcutting and use the other for milling - though I'll need to find or make a boring table for this one.

Many pages ago someone wrote about building an electronic leadscrew rather than faffing around with additional gear chains, did anyone actually do this conversion in the end and have anything learnt?

Best Regards,

Chris.

Hi David,

Your drill certainly looks the bee's knee's, and the photo's and tip about acbelting (from another topic?) certainly are useful to me at least.

I also picked up a Type B in September, thoroughly coated in grease and brass chippings from it's hard working life, though mine only came with the largest pulley rather than the smallest. I investigated getting spares from HerbertSpares, but the price was a little eye watering...

I'm also interested to see that Herbert did actually supply these drills with single phase motors, the ones that I have managed to research either had the three phase motor, like mine, or have had a single phase motor retrofitted, like I am trying to do. I'd be interested if there is any other makers marks on the motor? The Gryphon motors aren't exactly an good fit on the back motor mount.

Next step for me is to make a new motor pulley cone - to fit the keyed motor shaft rather than the tapered pin.

Best Regards,

Chris.