Hi Folks,
Just wanted to share some photos of my newly acquired lathe as I know theres not a lot of information on them and the more pictures shared the better. Other than lathes.co.uk, I've found posts on this website to be the best source of information on Mellor lathes, so thanks for sharing. I've been a lurker on the site for many years and its been very useful for learning welding techniques. A bit of background on myself for anyone interested - im an engineer, specialising is machinery vibrations and pipework vibrations offshore and I'm mainly interested with tinkering/customising motorbikes in my spare time. I'm a complete novice in machining but looking forward to learning the basics.
Anyway, I wasnt looking for a lathe in particular but when this came up on a local auction I could not pass up the opportunity to give it a home and give it some much needed TLC. I have only just started working on it so theres still a ways to go before powering it up and making some swarf.
I'm sure there will be some questions to follow once I get stuck in. Please let me know if you have any specific information on this lathe or know of any sources of spares. I believe this may be a later model due to the V belt pulleys as opposed to flat belt?
Just wanted to share some photos of my newly acquired lathe as I know theres not a lot of information on them and the more pictures shared the better. Other than lathes.co.uk, I've found posts on this website to be the best source of information on Mellor lathes, so thanks for sharing. I've been a lurker on the site for many years and its been very useful for learning welding techniques. A bit of background on myself for anyone interested - im an engineer, specialising is machinery vibrations and pipework vibrations offshore and I'm mainly interested with tinkering/customising motorbikes in my spare time. I'm a complete novice in machining but looking forward to learning the basics.
Anyway, I wasnt looking for a lathe in particular but when this came up on a local auction I could not pass up the opportunity to give it a home and give it some much needed TLC. I have only just started working on it so theres still a ways to go before powering it up and making some swarf.
I'm sure there will be some questions to follow once I get stuck in. Please let me know if you have any specific information on this lathe or know of any sources of spares. I believe this may be a later model due to the V belt pulleys as opposed to flat belt?