New - Rod from Gloucestershire

Hi all..... Rod from Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and just getting back into ME and lathe work after a break of around 30 years

I was recently digging around in a dusty drawer and found this little oscillator which I made goodness how many years ago.....

I can't remember whose castings were used. It sort of looks like a Stuart, but I'm not at all sure it is, and at the tender age of 71 I can't remember.... but it set me off again.

I bought myself a new Warco WM240 lathe (with those new fangled millimetre measurements) and have spent the last couple of weeks re-learning how to use it, and making a few tools and accessories ( and buying some), and now I am (sort of) ready to have a go at making things again. On the cards are a Stuart Twin Oscillator, followed by a Stuart S50.

I am reading just about every thread on here learning all over again.

Cheers

Rod

Edited By JasonB on 12/04/2016 20:47:18

Welcome Rod, hope you have fun bashing metal again - the copperplate writing is much better than mine.

Rik

Greetings and welcome Rod,

Nice oscillator and congratulations with your successful publication of a picture.

Have lots of fun with your new lathe, I'm in love with mine!

Cheers,

Dave

Well actually, that nice fella Jason edited my post to make the photo show up.
.... [img] tags don't work on here. I have since sorted out how to do it.

Rod, I,v got a couple of ideas about your motor, (1) if the motor is 2 1/2" high with a 1" flywheel, and has a bore of 7/16", and a stroke of 7/16" it, the ST Oscillator. (2) similar size, castings from the late 1920s/ early 1930s, and a bore of 1/2", and stroke of 3/4" it is the vertical oscillator version of the Progress motor. So it's probably number one.

Welcome aboard.

Ian S C

It is 2-1/2" high, 1-1/4" flywheel, stroke 7/16"

Thanks

Rod

Hello Rod,

That's from the Reeves castings, available in many different formats and can be made double or single acting.

Neil

Hi Rod, I remember you from 30 years ago and Percy V. Rance! Welcome to the forum!

John.

Ah! That was another life

But which "John" ??
The one that springs to mind immediately is associated with London Road. That one??

John who worked for Nick Staniford sometimes, when I wasn't driving trains or playing around with narrowboats! You taught me how to solder etched brass kits using Coke as flux...I still do that to this day!

John.