[modeleng] Small lathe and scroll-saw update

From: JEM HARRISON <jemharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:41:58 +0100 (BST)
I have now had a chance to have a closer look at the scroll-saw and the lathe.
   
  The scroll-saw needs a minor repair; the nipple on the balloon hasa 
fractured, so I reckon either a replacement part would be required, or, where 
the nipple has broken, a tapped 5BA hole could take a small brass adaptor.  The 
broken nipple was stuck in the plastic tube, which at its other end joined on 
to a piece of copper pipe, the function of this gubbins being to blow sawdust 
away from the saw-blade.
   
  The Lathe measures 20-inches long.  The headstock centre is about 3.5 inches 
above the gap and about 2.75 inches over the bed.  The tool-post is not a 
four-way type as I had at first thought and neither is it bigger than the one 
on my Myford!  There are two tool-holding positions: one side has a space for a 
rectangular tool, currently a Sandvik tungsten carbon insert on a 10mm square 
section bar; on the opposite side there is a round hole (10mm?), presumeably 
for a boring bar.  The whole toolpost can be rotated through 360 degrees and 
there are two mounting positions.  The toolpost measures 2-inches by 2-inches.  
There are lead-screw, cross-slide and tailstock handles, but there are no 
graduations on any of them.  The bed measures 12-inches by 1.875-inches and 
there are four bolt holes for mounting onto a bench.  The three-jaw chuck is a 
Pratt & Burnard of about 3.25-inches diameter, the four-jaw chuck is a Burnard 
measuring approx 3.25-inches in diameter.  There is also
 a five-inch diameter face-plate that contains four independent jaws.  There is 
a small drill-chuck on a morse-taper arbor in the tail-stock.
   
  The lathe is very clean and there are no traces of swarf.  The headstock 
bearings are rock-steady.  I do not know the origins of the lathe, or its 
'make'.  I do wonder if my friend, John, ever used it, as there is no motor 
with it.  It just sat on a piece of mdf, (which was spotlessly clean before I 
sprayed the lathe with wd40!), by his drawing board in his loft.  He was 
probably planning to use it to build a live-steamer in 0 Gauge based on LBSC's 
Mona design.
   
  If anyone can identify this lathe from my description, I should be grateful.  
If I can find someone to photograph it digitally and transfer the image onto a 
computer, then I could zap the image to anyone interested.
   
  Best wishes,
   
  Jem Harrison
  Basildon

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