Love of lathes.

[Retired]

Hi,

Thanks for asking Big Al. I've been bogged down and finding it increasingly difficult to get into the garage due to stupid things happening all the time and I've also been busy on two more forums.

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/ant...on-282932/

http://www.woodworkersinstitute.com/foru...?TID=14967&PID=146653𣳝

Lorch lathe restorations are quite rare especially Lorch lathes of this size so I thought I'd add the details to Practical Machinist forum in the hope of helping others who might come across one of these lathes and wish to attempt restoring it?

I finally managed to get into the garage today and have been playing around with the new Book Gryphon motor I've just bought through eBay. This motor has been stored for a couple of years and I must admit I'm surprised that due to poor paint work at the Doncaster factory? it looked rough. When I worked at Brooks all the motors had decent paint jobs but this Gryphon is abysmal having only just enough paint added to give colour but little protection; The paint scraped away very easily indeed which is hardly in keeping with a "quality" motor?

I cut three lengths of timber and made a cradle to support the motor during spray painting which can be seen in the pictures; this made spraying the motor so much easier allowing the entire motor to be sprayed; the motor has now received a decent coat of etching primer and will be allowed to dry overnight. Tomorrow I'll top coat it using the light green cellulose to make it match the lathe.

I took a decent picture of the Lorch bringing it up to date and it's nearing completion at last.

Kind regards, Col.