Micro Lathe

[rodp]

Sent you pm Dave, need email address and I'll send them to you.

[some bloke]

I used to have a porn star moustache like tom sellick, Some said i looked like him in my younger days, Some others reckoned i looked like freddy mercury which I was quite chuffed about till I found out he was a shirt lifter.

Has it got a drill chuck tail thingy Rod? If not can one be got for it? that is essential for one of my planned projects.

[rodp]

It's got a tail stock for one, I've no idea what taper it is or if it's just a straight hole in it. But the answer is yes, you could get / make something to fit in there to carry a chuck for drilling. I've only done one job on it just to try it then I decided to keep the larger Union lathe so put this to one side. If I have a little job I use the Unimat.

[terry1001]

Dave, my experience with workshop machinery is that you always end up wishing you'd gone for something bigger! There's a whole load of small lathes which all seem to come from one or two Chinese factories and are sold with different names and painted in different colours, this is one of the variants http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... etal-lathe. They often come up lightly used at sensible prices. They take slightly larger tools and have a greater capacity than the watchmaker's type and are perfectly adequate for aluminium, copper, brass etc and they can do screwcutting as well. The trouble with buying lathes and mills is that you get the machine for a reasonable price then spend twice as much on tooling.
With machine tools weight means rigidity which means better accuracy. If you keep your eyes open on the various free advertising websites you should see some come up, you may even get one which is a combined lathe and mill/drill which is quite a useful option.

[some bloke]

Terry, i know your making good sense and being helpfull, thanks for your advice but i only want it for a couple of miniature components for P60 size torches. Something a good deal less than half that price and size would do what I want. It would then live right in the back of the shed.

Got the photos now Rod thanks.

Without the tail stock drill chuck its likely to be too much by the time I've sorted out what fits it then try and find one for what - forgive me - looks like a long time obsolete machine, with possibly hard to get imperial size bits. Then the motor too.

I also need the tail stock to move much closer to the chuck to insert a ball end cutter into a component probably about an inch long before I part it off. I'm sure that a lot of people won't need a tail stock - and if it was only the pill and spacer I want to experiment with then it would appeal to me.


It was very nice of you to offer it to me at the same price you paid but I think its not quite what I'm looking for mate. Hopefully someone else on here won't need an active tail stock and will perhaps snaffle it up.

I've declined on open forum so that people can the reason that it isn't what I'm looking for rather than a post appearing that it's still for sale with no explanation.

EDIT: Huh!

I've expanded the photo's now and have spotted that the tail stock might well be able to slide forwards after all that - I'm a silly old git.

Rod, if we can confirm that I can purchase a tail stock chuck that fits it correctly I'd like to nip over and pick it up if that's OK. Are you able to find the measurement of the fitting tube if it's parallel?

Are you sure there is no indication of what it is? Or even where it was made?

[terry1001]

Dave, there's machines out there and they come up quite often but you have to be in the right place at the right time. I was lucky enough to get a bigger lathe/mill with loads of tooling and verniers/clocks etc for about half the price of the new machine on its own. Luckily a friend who knew I wanted something saw it on a modelling forum and told me about it, the only problem was a 350 mile round trip to pick it up, oh and nearly getting a hernia trying to get it out of the van and onto the stand! If you let everyone know you want a small lathe you'll end up with loads of offers, hope you get sorted.

[some bloke]

Cheers lads, It's hard to convince anyone how small a lathe I want - and need really.

i'd like to be able to plonk it on a kitchen table for example but i'll probably Have to get something bigger just because thats likely to be all that available.

Just been looking at a CO Baby lathe.

[PESCA]

These are only 25 inches long, Dave:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... etal-lathe

George

[some bloke]

These are only 25 inches long, Dave:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/produ ... etal-lathe

George

Cheers George - there's a Machine Mart about 2 miles from me but I positively won't pay that sort of dough mate.

A place in Syston sells, or possibly imports a 'CO Baby' at about 4 miles for a lot less. I'll probably saunter over just to kick it's tyres tomorrow.

I also have my eye on an even smaller one but will have to wait nearly a week before I get an answer on it. It has loads of tools too - including the chuck I need.

[some bloke]

Anyone recognise it?

The tail stock knob looks like it might be unique.