[modeleng] Re: Lathe for sale
- From: "Shep" <shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:29:38 -0000
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
>
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