Stringer EW lathe

Edited By Chris Trice on 16/01/2011 14:56:27

Edited By Chris Trice on 16/01/2011 15:05:27

I won't teach my granny to suck eggs here - most of my turning life has been with wood - only got the Myford a few years ago and am still trying to become a beginner

As mentioned elsewhere, I am Irish, so expect some of my cunning plans to have the effect of raising the hair on Baldric's head

Ruaidhrí

Edited By Ruaidhri Murphy on 17/01/2011 13:17:34

Edited By Ruaidhri Murphy on 17/01/2011 13:18:55

Hi Ruaidhrí

2 possibilities for getting the paint - do you know anyone traveling to and fro by ferry who could buy a few aerosols in the UK and take them over to you, or ask one of the suppliers here to ship to you by courier. As far as I know the problem is that normal small parcels would go air freight which is the NO NO for aerosols. Surface transport should be OK as I assume you can buy other aerosol products there.

I don't know where you've tried over there but  do you have any car restoration places you could have a word with, that's one of the bigger markets for the stuff here - re-finishing dash panels and instrument housings.

Keith

Hello All EW owners

I've recently acquired an EW lathe - or at least part of one - bed, cross and top slides, headstock, spindle and lead screw, and subsequently manged to source a tail-stock of the correct pattern for the age of the bed. My original reason for getting the lathe bed, was to incorporate it into a tool grinder, but when I collected it and saw the tail-stock on offer separately, it became a restoration project! It even looks as though an old chuck and backplate picked up on the off chance about 12 months ago will fit as well!

The bed on my lathe is the pattern with the extension to the tail-stock end and it has a gap, so from lathes.co.uk it looks like a fairly late version.

However I could do with a bit of information about these lathes however before I go much further.

I'm missing the back gear bracket, shaft and gears, although I've got the necessary gears on the main spindle, so that looks like a manufacturing job. But looking at the pictures that you've posted and those on the lathes.co.uk website I can't see any signs of a clutch any where in the lead-screw so it looks as though thread cutting under power could be "interesting" especially up to a shoulder. Do your machines have such a clutch and I've just not spotted, it or will this be an "owners modification" that I wish to carry out. At the moment I don't have any change wheels for the EW but I do have loads for my Drummonds which at 14 dp rather than 16 dp are too big on the face of it but if I incorporate a clutch, then that has to go somewhere, and I think the easiest would be to move the change wheels further to the left of the headstock and make up a suitable banjo and mounting to suit with the clutch between the change wheel array and the end of the lead-screw. - I don't want to modify any original parts if can avoid it.

Any advice or comments will be most welcome. This machine is too good to mess about, it deserves to be restored and set up as a lathe!

Keith