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Alan Maughan07/03/2016 09:31:48
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A nice sunny day here in Northumberland and a new workshop to kit out so life is good.

Ive been out of engineering for around 15yrs after losing my workshop and all its contents due to a relationship breakdown. Now I've rented a new place, I have some money in the bank and things are starting over again.

Sadly back then I had good gear and Im shocked at just how much prices seem to have risen for often very tired old stuff now. I bought myself an almost new Warco GH1330 after looking at far too many tired old Harrisons and Colchesters, so far Im quite impressed with the machine once I set it up properly.

Ive also just picked up a clean Myford VMF but as yet I need to source tooling so can't say what this machine performs like, I expect it will be good enough for my needs though.

Its quite a daunting task when you look at everything I used to have and what it would cost to replace it all but Ive got to start somewhere so here I am

Involute Curve07/03/2016 10:05:15
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Good luck mate

MW07/03/2016 10:12:02
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Im actually slightly envious of that lathe, welcome to MEW forums.

Michael W

Andrew Johnston07/03/2016 10:16:55
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Alan: Welcome to the forum. It's sunny down south today too! I'm a regular visitor to Northumberland around Wooler. I fly with the Borders gliding club at Milfield from whence we can hill soar Cheviot.

Andrew

mechman4807/03/2016 10:17:14
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Welcome Alan,

I can relate with you on the relationship score, many moons ago, like you, picked my self up & started again.

George

Gray6207/03/2016 10:52:17
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Welcome Alan,

Good choice of lathe, I've had a GH1330 for several years now, it's been good to me so far. I changed the motor recently for a 3 phase/inverter setup, a worthwhile conversion in my opinion.

I've also added a mod to the tailstock to allow lever feed original concept was designed by John Stevenson of this forum), I've found this a very useful addition. There are some pictures of this in my albums

One thing I did find was that although Warco state the spindle bore is 38mm, there was a constriction part way down the bore which meant I could only get about 36mm bar right through. I line bored the spindle with a a specially made boring bar to overcome this.

I'm working on a couple of other mods for the lathe, to add a spindle drive clutch and a modification to the forward/reverse mechanism to allow single point pickup/reverse for screwcutting when the half nuts have to be left engaged, this will also allow feed to be stopped and reversed without first powering off.

Neil Wyatt07/03/2016 14:18:53
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Welcome to the forum, Alan.

Neil

Russell Eberhardt07/03/2016 15:42:21
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Bonjour et bienvenu from the not so sunny South of France today.

Russell;

Alan Maughan07/03/2016 17:44:23
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

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