Smart and brown lathe

Good evening lads

Relatively new to the forum and was just wondering if there's any smart and brown lathe owners on here.

Thanks

Steve

obviously not!

Hi Steve.

I have a smart and Brown model L capstan lathe.

All original except for the motor.

Still setting it up.

Mick

I have emco 8 lathe, can please help with the taper on the headstock as making a new backing plate for my 4 jaw chuck

thanks john

I have a 1024 VSL, a bit scruffy but bought with lots of extra toys. Three-phase but now running from external inverter. After my Myford, the bed of this one looks like the deck of an aircraft carrier...

I have the S & B Sabel, a nice and slightly upmarket version of the US Southbend lathe

Brian

Another 1024 VSL owner. Also slightly scruffy. Native metric and very accurate. Drives Direct 10 HP plug and play inverter powers everything in the workshop, one machine or one machine and the Hydrovane compressor at a time.

Being clutchless can be a bit irritating but simplicity of design is very attractive on an older machine. Stuff that isn't fitted can't wear out or go wrong. Expanding / contacting pulley pair gives mechanical varispeed drive and smooth flat belt to the spindle. Simples and effective.

One thing that really annoyed me was the general fuss and messing about needed to change from metric to imperial threading. Standard intermediate gear on the banjo is on a nice roller bearing stud. But as built you have to pull the banjo off and change the stud to a plain one for the compound conversion gear. Bolting the 127 gear to the standard roller bearing intermediate gear via a suitable spacer sorted that. Took about 3 DP and 3 fine BA threads off the list but I can live with that. Don't think I've ever seen a DP thread or any of the really fine BA ones.

Clive

At Epping Forest Horology Club we have 5 model 'L' lathes in daily use with a cabinet of collets, chucks, step chucks, etc etc, and also a model 'A' later type, screwcutting lathe.

3 of the 'L's are as orignallly supplied to Hackney College circa 1971 and two others have been restored in house

Edited By Bob Stevenson on 14/04/2019 10:07:33

Don't suppose you have a spare 48 toothed gear for the model A do you?

I have a 1024

I have a Smart and Brown Model A Toolroom lathe that I have had for over 18 years, it was originally suplied to the Atomic Energy Authority so it probably glows in the dark.

It's rock solid, built like a tank with large vee and flat guideways with a bed the width of a cricket pitch, well almost.

I've got a model M

Join the two previous posts and you've got a model m that belonged to the Atomic Energy Authority.

Martin C

Edited By Martin Connelly on 15/04/2019 18:43:15

........Here's mine in a similar shade of green to yours Martin.

this is mine as i got it. It's running a 160v DC motor with speed controller.

I have had a Model A Mk2 for more than 40 years now. It had been in a REME workshop where they only worked on huge commercial vehicles. So my lathe had seen very little use when I bought it at a government auction. It has done plenty of work for me since.

Could anybody tell me if my leg is a Mark 1 or a Mark 2 model a

Lathe not leg

Steve

Mark 2. The apron control layout is diagnostic. See **LINK** . MK 1 has a simple lever to select saddle or cross slide power feed not the knob and dial that yours has.

Clive

Edited By Rob Cook on 22/05/2019 22:32:13