super relm 100 parts needed

hi im restoring a old super relm lathe i need some parts, problem is im new to this so not sure exactly what the parts i need are called so going to add some pics of what iv got and how it should look circled in red and hope someone could help thanks in advance nickyj

It looks like you pretty much need the entire headstock gubbins and the apron on the saddle, or even an entire saddle depending on the damage.

It looks like your unit has been butchered to provide spare parts for another Relm and there's not much left

Best approach may be to source another relm with all the bits present and correct

Doing it bit by bit and paying through the nose for rebuilding your unit could be a long and possibly impossible task

You need the backgear, bullgear, pulleys and all the little widgets and screws which hold it together and make it work at the headstock, and you need the entire saddle apron assembly

My advice is buy another lathe

Don't chuck it out, even if you buy a different lathe.

If you take up the hobby you will find a use for it eventually, especially if the bed is in decent nick.

You seem to have the whole ballgame apart from those critical bits, which is pretty frustrating

All I can suggest is to keep a regular eye on a well known auction site, it took me 2 years to source a shaper but I got there eventually with regular visits, I fixed my originally broken lathe backgear after about 12 months

Get to know the bits you really need, so you can spot them straight away, sometimes lathe parts are advertised as"unknown", especially with rarer machines

GL

If using the lathe is your main concern, and its affordable for you, a simple route would be to add a VFD (inverter) drive with a 3-phase motor driving one or two poly-vee pulleys on the spindle. Around 0.4 -0.5 kW would be right. This will give you a very usable machine.

The big challenge will be finding the apron, but making one - but making or getting one made would not be impossible.

Perhaps we could answer the question, gubbins and widgets are not parts of lathes that I would recognise as proper names? Help the OP.

2 Step main pulley with bull gear to the right hand side.

Back gear (for speed reducing) with gears to engage with the bull gear and small driving gear (which is keyed to the spindle) on the left hand side of the 2 step pulley.

Leadscrew engagement lever (for screwcutting or traversing saddle) being part of the saddle apron assembly which would include the handwheel (as shown) for moving the cross slide on the saddle.

Is that better Nicky?

Lathes.co.uk has useful data as well.

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Nicky,

Wise words from Neil ^^^

In case you are unfamiliar with poly-vee ... It is a very efficient belt and pulley system, capable of running small pulley diameters, and can therefore be very compact ... have a look at the pictures of this wood lathe for example.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 24/12/2015 10:56:41

Would definitely get you up and running a lot faster.

I collected about 2500 pictures of lathes a couple of years ago over the course of 12 months and only got a single lonely example of a super relm, they are not easy machines to find

thank you for the responses help and advice, i think iv managed to source myself the main pulleys, back gears, banjo and threading gears so i think all i need to get up and running is the Lead screw engagement lever

You have a great career ahead of you as a 'gopher'!

Neil

If you've got all the other bits, get it running and make the leadscrew engagement lever

Making the half nuts would probably be something that requires more than a lathe? That said you could mould a delrin nut around the leadscrew, bolt it on the saddle and have a working but somewhat limited lathe if you stick a handle on either side of the leadscrew.

Hi Nicky

Once you know the tread form data for the lead screw, you may find that the parts are already available for a differently named machine, based on international thread standards of any era you should be able to get taps dies etc to make any threads to match the only 5 thread constraints, you are not limited by what you use only by the end appearance and available space, thinking outside the box is how many forum members achieve the same results on many different types of machines, good look

Rufus