Hameg scope repair

[Yorkie]

The belt that my lathe uses is made from that plastic round stuff that Chronos and other sell, which you cut to length them warm up the ends and press together to weld it. I think from memory, mine is 6mm diam. Hopefully, if I exercise more caution and ensure that I've gort the right jaws in, I woun't need to find out if the belt will slip or the jaws will smash! It's surprising how quickly you can reduce the diameter of round stock, even with fine cuts, but of course as we know, a 0.25mm cut is 0.5 mm off the diamter.

A 'micro lathe' that I'ver heard good reports of, of which many hundreds have been sold, is the 'C0 Baby' Lathe suppled by Arc Euro Trade. £225 seems a keen price:

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/...Baby-Lathe

A range of accesories here:

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/...ccessories

A review of the lahte by Railway Modeller magazine here:

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/reviews/br...review.pdf

Obviously limited in its scope, but fine for little jobs - we're not sending rockets into space after all!