Windy Miller
Semi-Professional Potterer!
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What a beauty!
Is that a handle to wind the tailstock along with?
Is that a handle to wind the tailstock along with?
Yes it is. Very much needed. It is a Morse Taper 4 like my Triumph but the barrel looks like a cannon bored out for .22What a beauty!
Is that a handle to wind the tailstock along with?
Except when you try to move it. I have it on big rollers and it is munching up my warehouse floor in some placesIt does have a certain charm.
Ah, you need proper concrete for a proper lathe!Except when you try to move it. I have it on big rollers and it is munching up my warehouse floor in some places
The HIAB lorry floor didn't like it either.Ah, you need proper concrete for a proper lathe!
She'd probably go straight through my garage floor, if she'd fit in at all!
You never know with old stuff, just keep a search on lathe steadies, and have the picture saved ready to cross check - maybe one will turn up. People don't use them for years sometimes, but when you do they are invaluable. Anyway, you allways have your Triumph if you need to turn a long piece accurately....A nice copy of the original brochure. Mine comes with the taper turner but sadly nothing else. Steadies will be unobtanium. Talk about Karma though. About 2 months ago I bought a huge 4 jaw chuck on Ebay to sell on. Badly listed so picked it up cheap as chips. A D1-8 fitting. I thought I will never get a lathe big enough to need this
MT4 hole looks tiny. They could easily have made it a 5 or 6.
Bunch of weirdo’sJoin the holbrook group Fizzy ...some very well informed and helpful folk ..slightly jealous
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There’s toolroom with tiny spindles and there’s this . Don’t be fooled by the name, it’s got Herbert dna and that means it was designed to work hardThe trouble with making the tailstock taper too big is the the temptation to put, for example, a 3 1/4" diameter Morse 5 drill in it. On a toolroom lathe, that is just not cricket.
@fizzy put it on a pallet for you @northwest
Yes it is very sad really. A Myford would sell for double!As many have discovered, There is a lot of heavy iron out there at pocket money prices if I had the room I would have a shed full.