advice required

According to Tony on Lathes UK, they were a greenish grey, not always the same shade. He suggests a good start would be Benjamin Moore Urethane Alkyd Industrial Enamel, formula: M22-3B, OY-15, BK-27, MA- 1 1/2 per quart.

Sounds like you'll have to swat up on flat belts, sometimes car timing belts turned inside out can be utilised, a second use for a worn out one.

Ian S C

The spring loaded wicks are not usually a problem when taking apart but sometimes a touch fiddly when putting the spindle back. There is usually two small holes in the front of the headstock casting (but not always ) ,which allows you to poke in something like a small allen key to hold the wicks down whilst replacing the spindle. Most of the tear down is common sense apart from the left hand clutch screw (which i dont think you have ).

Most people replace the thrust washer at the back of the headstock spindle with narrow needle bearings which cost around £7 and almost eliminates spindle end float.

What year is the lathe, serial number is on the right of the bed under the tailstock?

Edited By mark smith 20 on 30/01/2017 11:30:16

Edited By mark smith 20 on 30/01/2017 11:34:16

Age? Last nigh I believed it to be 1941 based on serial numbers close to it on an american macinery site.

Today I cleaned up the plates and it appears to be 1940. Catalogue no 413. 40 bed length 3.5. Serial no 116895.

The plate on the back shows

AD.M 1432/18

P.NO 111

116895

NO sign of grrey paint anywhere,just green and cream.

it is probably Sept 1941 (is that 40 part of the model number?), is that model 413 or 415? My earlier one is 122171 which appears to be end of 1942.

They seem to have been in various shades of grey ,but you could get any colour you wanted if you paid a small surcharge.

Edited By mark smith 20 on 30/01/2017 14:42:25

Yes Mark..a typo. It is 415.

Interesting to hear they were grey. I suppose it could have been thoroughly cleaned up and repainted in the past..maybe more than once? One tends to assume paint found on inner faces of castings to be original,if so,green was the colour:if not...?

Anyway it is progressing slowly.tailstock and all guards are off. Info plates refurbed and quite a bit of paint scraped off by hand. I am off to the shops tomorrow to chose a colour then buy 500ml which I expect will suffice.

I favour rustolium which I use on outdoor metal posts with success but it depends if they have a suitable colour. I like originality but do not want to go to extremes as it is only cosmetic.

I painted mine in boxford blue/grey which looks ok in person but very blue in photos for some reason. The original colour on mine was a sort of grey with a greenish bluish tint , and somewhat similar to Rustoleum Mouse grey. If i was doing one again which is very unlikely i would prefer the grey to the blue/grey boxford colour from Paragon paints.

Edited By mark smith 20 on 30/01/2017 18:49:03

Original colour

Edited By mark smith 20 on 30/01/2017 18:53:12

Thanks Mark. Nice pics of your machine.Even the original motor! Sorry for the delay responding.The site decided to refuse my password until now! The grey looks fine but as yet I have not chosen a colour for my machine.I suppose it depends what the shop has in stock when I go. No such luck today! Plenty of info on the web and lots of videos but most are superficial rubbish which tell little or nothing.

Edited By john evans 13 on 31/01/2017 22:30:51