help wanted identifying lathe.

Your link is not working, have you made a typo?

Rich

Should be:

Looks like you've got an interesting restoration project there...

Regards, Tony

Thanks - the .com is supposed to redirect. I'll have to look into that.

yes - I have the motor and drive pulleys as well, but it's working out what is supposed to go where - I've no experience with turret lathes.

Will a chuck fit into the collet in the headstock? or will the collet retainer need to be removed?

Also, will it be possible to get a tailstock to fit, or do I fit the centres in the turret?

Did I just see this on Saturday at the Sodbury Sortout? ;o))

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

nope :.)

don't suppose you noticed what make the one there was did you?

Have you got a picture of the whole lathe? Not bits n bobs..

Tom

Erm, no, I'm afraid not - but it was very alike. It was the gurt lever that caught my eye ;o))

It's got some curious features, hasn't it?

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

In spring, a man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of getting his motorcycle on the road!

I've so far discovered that the headstock takes Hardinge collets - it came with a 5/8"

and if I take the collet retaining cap off, an (unknown size) morse taper adaptor that I got at the car boot is a good fit.

If the bed is precisely 3 inches diameter, with a 1 inch slot underneath and the leadscrew centrally mounted inside it, then suspect some Drummond ancestry in it ... though there isn't a single casting in common with the original Drummond Round Bed.

Otherwise, ... no ideas.

- Brian

There is no slot, and no leadscrew

And I must have searched through 200 pages + on google last night, without even one picture of a lathe that looked anything like

:.((

Its just a small Capstan/2nd OP machine. Though I dont see the stops i would expect on the turret slide.

Wayne.....

it is very possible that it could be a Sothbend Lathe..... i remember my dad telling me about one he had in the past.. i swear he said it had a round bed.

HTH