Hi,
Thanks Joe for the interesting video. Its amazing what can be done with a little imagination. The Holtzapffel ornamental lathe I previously mentioned is called a Rose Engine and many years ago such a lathe was used to produce the fancy patterns on bank note printing plates.
You are so right Nick; a great deal of work can be produced on a very small lathe; David (Yorkie) has a delightful watch makers lathe ( Lorch) which is capable of high precision whilst turning parts you would think impossible due to its small overall size. Here's a surprise for you David at £1,250;
http://www.lathes.co.uk/advertphoto/120309lorchkd50/
I've considered buying a small hobby sized lathe just for turning small items like bushes and knobs so perhaps when Santa arrives I might end up with lathe #5. I need an engineering lathe in order to restore both my Myford's but I can get around this by setting up one of the Myford's to turn the parts for the other Myford then when the second Myford is finished use this to restore the first Myford. I know I can do this because I cut 45 cast iron gears a couple of years ago on the first Myford whilst this had a broken main bearing casting; I also turned two new head-stock bearings from Tufnel so in effect this lathe repaired itself. A bit of desperation works wonders but the main thing is that a lathe big or small is the daddy of all machine tools and like other lathe owners I love my lathes. I bet you would never be without a lathe Nick now that you've owned one.
Kind regards, Col.
Thanks Joe for the interesting video. Its amazing what can be done with a little imagination. The Holtzapffel ornamental lathe I previously mentioned is called a Rose Engine and many years ago such a lathe was used to produce the fancy patterns on bank note printing plates.
You are so right Nick; a great deal of work can be produced on a very small lathe; David (Yorkie) has a delightful watch makers lathe ( Lorch) which is capable of high precision whilst turning parts you would think impossible due to its small overall size. Here's a surprise for you David at £1,250;
http://www.lathes.co.uk/advertphoto/120309lorchkd50/
I've considered buying a small hobby sized lathe just for turning small items like bushes and knobs so perhaps when Santa arrives I might end up with lathe #5. I need an engineering lathe in order to restore both my Myford's but I can get around this by setting up one of the Myford's to turn the parts for the other Myford then when the second Myford is finished use this to restore the first Myford. I know I can do this because I cut 45 cast iron gears a couple of years ago on the first Myford whilst this had a broken main bearing casting; I also turned two new head-stock bearings from Tufnel so in effect this lathe repaired itself. A bit of desperation works wonders but the main thing is that a lathe big or small is the daddy of all machine tools and like other lathe owners I love my lathes. I bet you would never be without a lathe Nick now that you've owned one.
Kind regards, Col.
Happiness is a wreck of a cabinet to restore.
