Member postings for Baz

Go for ER32. Never seen a milling cutter of any size with 7/16 dia shank.

Buy a ready made one, life’s too short!

Fizzy can’t you ask Polly where they got it from, or won’t they tell you.

Late last year I purchased a part built kit loco and the paintwork looked like it had been done with a creosote brush. I purchased some aluminium turkey roasting trays and all the bits went in there with the modern equivalent of Nitromors. It took a couple of applications but I got back to bare metal and it is now being rebuilt.

Headstock bearings too tight?

Squeezing it down to what size? How do you intend to squeeze it ?

Now that’s what you call a roughing cut !

I want one!

Definitely the taper and the star wheel need to be two separate pieces, perhaps with a PTFE or similar washer between them.

I think I read something about it in EIM this month. I heard from a member of the trade at the beginning of the month that the loco kits may finish, I would imagine the new owners would sell them off though if they were not interested in continuing them thereselves. They are certainly very popular, every club seems to have a few of them.

On the plus side it has raised the lathe up, Bantams are quite low and working one for a day will give you backache. I have a Bantam 1600 of about 1965 vintage and have raised it up on two lengths of four inch square fence post. I am not sure I like the idea of all that weight on castors, I presume the casters are fixed through the bolting down bosses, if it were me I would want the casters mounted on some outrigger to take the caster outside the machines footprint, if you have ever seen a lathe with an out of balance job on a faceplate rocking about you will realise how easy it is to tip one over.

I am sure that with changewheels or a qc gearbox a minimum feed of two thou per rev can be achieved, therefore what do you need this overpriced accessory for? Unless of course you really need very fine feeds.

Totally agree with Duncan, get on line and order yourself one, you will most probably get it before the weekend.

This is the great danger of you tube videos, you don’t know the provenance of the presenter, I have seen machining videos that are downright dangerous. In the good old days you went to college and were taught by a professional, nowadays anyone with a mobile phone can claim to be an expert.

Yeah had the same problem myself late last year, thank goodness for eBay. I managed to get all I needed plus pares plus a few extra sizes just in case.

Thank goodness for that, perhaps now we will get some decent service.

Doubt very much if any drawing errors will have been rectified, with model engineering plans, and I call them plans because they are most certainly not engineering drawings, it is down to the purchaser to find the errors, usually the hard way by making the bits and then finding they don’t fit. You are fortunate in the respect that you have only wasted time not metal and time, if it is any consolation all model engineering plans have errors, some minor, some major, none to my knowledge have ever been corrected. I consider it to be a shameful state of affairs.

Don’t know about interesting, more like scary times.

Yes definitely Time and Precision in Basingstoke, going by the phone code it is quite old, label shows 0256 code, Basingstoke is 01256 and has been for many years, if you can find out when the code changed you could possibly date it. The company was owned by two brothers, cannot remember their names, the unislide was the core of the business with a bit of sub con work for other companies in the area, biggest the factory ever got was about a 4000 sq foot unit with about 15 - 20 employees. Company is long, long gone.

Rod, just taken the horizontal spindle nipples out and they have grease in them, a quick poke about in the hole with the long end of an Allen key reveals grease looking very much like Castrol LM.