[modeleng] Re: Lathe for sale

Alan

It looks great - what a splendid job you did in refurbishing and painting 
it.   Built like a battleship, indeed!

In the late 1940's, I had a heavy Drummond lathe at work, built for the 
Royal Navy for use in the first World War.    It, too was extremely heavily 
built, but with a strange anomaly - the bed for the saddle was very wide, 
and then rising at least six inches above it was a subsidiary narrow bed for 
the tailstock!   A very strange idea, as except for the 'gap' where the top 
bed stopped, it greatly restricted the diameter of metal to be machined. 
It also had a comparatively short bed - presumably to fit into the warship's 
workshop.

Cheers!   Hubert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 5:51 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Lathe for sale


> Sadly, no.
> In fact, it wont even go in my car if I want to get in as well, and also 
> it
> is best to keep the front wheels on the ground!
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Patrick Coppens" <develop@xxxxxxxxx>
> Alan
>
> You wouldn't put it in your backpack and swim of the Channel with it,
> would you?
>
> Patrick
>
> MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST.
>
> To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to,
> modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject 
> line. 

MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST.

To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, 
modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Other related posts: