Hello all

Hello to all you metal cutters...

i served my time as a precision engineer in Bournemouth (aero industry) and spent 38 years at Rolls Royce in Bristol...since I retired I have found myself learning Woodturning ... but have since bought a 1906 Drummond pre B flatbed lathe....

the smell of oil and grease has not left me...i have since found another 1908 pre B..and intend to mix and Match to get a decent machine..

heres hoping I can get some help if needed...

i live in Yate which is just north east of Bristol ...

anyone near ?

Lots of Aero engineers (serving and retired) on this site so you are in similar company.

My Model engineering society is a short distance from you (Westbury in Wiltshire) but you have a Model Engineering Society in Bristol who I'm sure would be very friendly for face to face help.

https://www.bristolmodelengineers.co.uk/

I too worked in Bournemouth and Poole.

Some aero industry as well. I started out machining industrial sewing machine parts to very tight limits including 4 10ths of a thou measured over 4 components.

Largest components I machined were 4 metres long aerospace parts for the Airbus wing holding fixture for the Supper Guppy. I think they held two wings at a time for an airbus. Great fun.

Steve

The Bristol Society of Model and Experimental Engineers would make you most welcome. We do have a few ex-RR employees. The best way to contact us is through our website, as Jon Lewis's reply, but you could send me a PM.

I live within five of miles from you.

JA

Hi Steve welcome to the forum there are quite a lot of Drummond owners on here as well as loads of information that can help. There is a Drummond web site here which can help as well.

https://groups.io/g/drummondlathe/topics?p=recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,89782888

Just ask on here and most questions are answered.

David

Welcome Steve!

You can take the man out of Engineering, but you can't take the Engineering out of the man!

Also ex R-R but at Oil Engine Division at Sentinel Works n Shrewsbury.

And we are by no means the only ex R-R men in model engineering.

Have never visited, but The Bristol club used to run a show at Thornbury, so quite an active outfit, I would imagine.

Many a good tune played on a an old fiddle.

I have a friend who produces far better work than I can on a round bed Drummond. (It is probably over a hundred years old now! )

Howard