New member from Dorset here!

Former toolmaker situated in North Dorset. My home machine shop comprises of the following:

Myford 254S long bed lathe (with Newton Tesla VFD).

Rishton / Myford milling attachment for the above lathe.

Tos Mn80A instrument lathe with all of its original accessories.

Vison Tool & Cutter Grinder that was adapted by someone cleverer than me into a truly unique multi-purpose grinder, including a motorised cylindrical grinding attachment.

Eagle Surface Grinder with 15" x 6" Eclipse magnetic chuck.

Tom Senior Major vertical mill (with the less common dovetailed sliding head arrangement). Fitted with Newton Tesla VFD.

Meddings Pedestal Drill.

Axminster Combination Linisher.

Andeli all in one inverter welder.

Warco Horizontal Bandsaw

Powered Flywheel Press

Currently looking to purchase a Denford VMC1300 Pro CNC mill or similar.

Hi Shaun. Welcome along. It seems you have pretty much everything in the shop. Most new members are just starting out & building there equipment up.

I bet there will be quite a few other members of the Forum down your way.

Steve.

Welcome Shaun, we look forward to getting help and advice from you. Looks like the only thing that you might add to your comprehensive workshop might be a heat treatment oven.

Funny you should say about a kiln, I did pick up a small German made electric kiln recently. It was previously used for fusing decorative glass. It was one of those rare moments when Gumtree came up trumps and it was free to a good home and less than 10 miles away to collect which was a huge bonus

Thanks for the welcomes - I used to buy MEW back in the early 1990's and that's how I ended up buying one of the last of the TOS Mn80a instrument lathes which were imported by XYZ Machine Tools of Tiverton when the Eastern Bloc imploded. I still have the original advert leaflets that XYZ placed in MEW magazine to shift these wonderful little machines. Mind you the accuracy certificates that came with the lathe are somewhat a work of fiction and one can imagine some poor oppressed Czech factory worker being told to falsify the numbers on pain of death! 

The Mn80a lathe came retrofitted by XYZ with a British made VFD drive connected to a somewhat over sized 3-phase motor and all these years on both are still working perfectly, all be it without the torque vectoring of modern VFD's. 

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Welcome to the party, I grew up in N Dorset ! Rough cider and all ! Noel.

I'm North Dorset too, Gillingham. I keep thinking Gillingham and Shaftesbury need a model engineering society!

Welcome!

Your experience and inputs will be appreciated by many on here.

Many will envy your kit!

Howard

I bought a 160mm three jaw chuck from XYZ Tools at Tiverton with a camlock backplate when they were fitting Bison chucks to their lathes, and sold the backplate for what I paid for the chuck.

Welcome to the forum

H