Mini Lathe Kit

david R

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Nov 10, 2009, 7:15:29 AM11/10/09

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I have just missed a mini lathe kit on e bay, it was a set of partly
machined castings for a lathe of circa 50mm swing 350 centres. Pity
but does anyone know where or when they were produced?
Dave

Mark Rand

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Nov 10, 2009, 10:50:47 AM11/10/09

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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:15:29 -0800 (PST), david R <rogerso...@yahoo.com>
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Got an auction ID to see what it looked like?

Mark Rand
RTFM

david R

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Nov 12, 2009, 10:39:49 AM11/12/09

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On 10 Nov, 15:50, Mark Rand <ra...@internettie.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:15:29 -0800 (PST), david R <rogerson.da...@yahoo.com>

> wrote:
>
> >I have just missed a mini lathe kit on e bay, it was a set of partly
> >machined castings for a lathe of circa 50mm swing 350 centres. Pity
> >but does anyone know where or when they were produced?
> >Dave
>
> Got an auction ID to see what it looked like?
>
> Mark Rand
> RTFM

item=19034842501
Dave

Tony Jeffree

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Nov 12, 2009, 10:53:32 AM11/12/09

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0 results found for "19034842501"

Sure thats the right item number?

Regards
Tony

mark

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Nov 12, 2009, 11:34:38 AM11/12/09

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try
190345020398

looks like copy of ml2 3 4 or drumond

mark

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Nov 12, 2009, 11:42:24 AM11/12/09

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anbd not much use without counter shaft belts and motor ..anbd other
bits and peices

which could cost you as much as buying a fully complete new chinky
one .

hes been putting one of these on every week ..
he has one on now ..
they go for £40 - £50

all the best.markj

Brassman

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Nov 14, 2009, 4:52:54 PM11/14/09

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It looks as if its a Simat. Headstock and tailstock tapers are Modified
MT0, IIRC the thread is 14x1.5 and Unimat chucks should fit. If the
picture shows all the bits that are being supplied it's missing the
drive from the spindle to the lead screw. The back end of the headstock
spindle has a worm drive machined onto it which meshes with a bronze
gearwheel that is on the end of a shaft with another worm drive machined
on it which drives another bronze gearwheel on the end of the leadscrew.
The part that looks like a clock key is the bearing for this
intermediate shaft and swings to take the drive in and out of gear.

Should you acquire one I can let you have a copy of the manual.

Don Valentine

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Phil O. Sopher

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Nov 15, 2009, 4:02:34 AM11/15/09

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"Brassman" <Brassma...@rcgroups.com> wrote in message
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> It looks as if its a Simat.

I think that there's a picture of a Simat in the standard beginner's book
"The Amateur's Lathe" by L.H.Sparey, available from Camden.

David Billington

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Nov 15, 2009, 5:15:36 AM11/15/09

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And here http://www.lathes.co.uk/flexy/index.html . By the looks of them
one of my neighbours had one for sale a month or 2 ago.

david R

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Nov 17, 2009, 5:00:15 AM11/17/09

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On 14 Nov, 21:52, Brassman <Brassman.41n...@rcgroups.com> wrote:
> It looks as if its a Simat. Headstock and tailstock tapers are Modified
> MT0, IIRC the thread is 14x1.5 and Unimat chucks should fit. If the
> picture shows all the bits that are being supplied it's missing the
> drive from the spindle to the lead screw. The back end of the headstock
> spindle has a worm drive machined onto it which meshes with a bronze
> gearwheel that is on the end of a shaft with another worm drive machined
> on it which drives another bronze gearwheel on the end of the leadscrew.
> The part that looks like a clock key is the bearing for this
> intermediate shaft and swings to take the drive in and out of gear.
>
> Should you acquire one I can let you have a copy of the manual.
>
> Don Valentine
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Thanks very much very usfull. I did acquire it in the end as the top
bidder didnt pay, just waiting for it to arrive so am intrested in the
manual. Happy to pay costs of course

Dave

1501

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Nov 19, 2009, 9:25:52 PM11/19/09

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Wasn't a member of this family of machines also sold as the Flexispeed
or Flexispeed Meteor. Dased at North Walsham IIRC