22-05-2011, 07:28 PM
Hi,
I have a selection of Record tools and a Record DML24" lathe all of which are excellent; the lathe is basic but well put together and a pleasure to use and I've owned it for the best part of twenty years. What a pity our manufacturing has now mostly gone abroad only to be replaced by factory buildings being turned into flats (sorry luxury apartments) and fast food being the only growth industry.
I still believe England has the best engineers in the world it's a pity England doesn't use them. We can make the best steel in the world and we were responsible for the industrial revolution on all counts I'm still proud to be English.
The parts shown in the picture are nothing short of disgraceful; they obviously were supplied from a number of different batches without inspection being applied to any.
The smaller part doesn't even appear to be concentric.
David I would be ashamed to put my name to such mediocre work and could produce much higher quality using my worn out Myford engineering lathe in fact I would welcome the challenge assuming I could obtain a steel blank.
Looking at the four jaws they appear each to be mounted by a single countersunk set screw presumably onto indexed slides so do they actually need to be numbered in sequence? A picture of the back of the jaws would be appreciated as I'm not familiar with the type of chuck.
The picture couldn't explain better why I prefer to buy scrap heavy duty cast iron English made machines and restore them; these machines were accurately made and made to last many generations. The only reason such machines get thrown out as scrap is because of many years of abuse by the operator.Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards, Col
I have a selection of Record tools and a Record DML24" lathe all of which are excellent; the lathe is basic but well put together and a pleasure to use and I've owned it for the best part of twenty years. What a pity our manufacturing has now mostly gone abroad only to be replaced by factory buildings being turned into flats (sorry luxury apartments) and fast food being the only growth industry.
I still believe England has the best engineers in the world it's a pity England doesn't use them. We can make the best steel in the world and we were responsible for the industrial revolution on all counts I'm still proud to be English.
The parts shown in the picture are nothing short of disgraceful; they obviously were supplied from a number of different batches without inspection being applied to any.
The smaller part doesn't even appear to be concentric.
David I would be ashamed to put my name to such mediocre work and could produce much higher quality using my worn out Myford engineering lathe in fact I would welcome the challenge assuming I could obtain a steel blank.
Looking at the four jaws they appear each to be mounted by a single countersunk set screw presumably onto indexed slides so do they actually need to be numbered in sequence? A picture of the back of the jaws would be appreciated as I'm not familiar with the type of chuck.
The picture couldn't explain better why I prefer to buy scrap heavy duty cast iron English made machines and restore them; these machines were accurately made and made to last many generations. The only reason such machines get thrown out as scrap is because of many years of abuse by the operator.Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards, Col
