Micro Lathe

[rodp]

Dave you're correct in saying it's obsolete, and probably has been for twenty years or more Having said that, I bet over 50% of small workshop lathes are now.
I'll check out the tailstock fitting tonight when I get back. If you have time making a chuck fitting isn't hard, just get an old drill chuck off the bay, find a bolt that screws in the end then turn the bolt to fit tailstock, .......done.

If you don't need a lathe on a permanent basis you can borrow my Unimat for a few weeks if you want to ? It's smaller and lighter than this one and does have a chuck ready to fit in the tail. It's also on a board ready to be clamped down to a work bench or table.

[22-250jock]

Dave,

have you seen this one? http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue ... Baby-Lathe

£247 + £10 p&p

might still be a bit more than you want to pay,

picked mine up off ebay for just under £200, its a copy of the unimat 3/4, size wise the whole thing is only 16'' and easy to pick up and move

cheers jock

[some bloke]

Dave you're correct in saying it's obsolete, and probably has been for twenty years or more Having said that, I bet over 50% of small workshop lathes are now.
I'll check out the tailstock fitting tonight when I get back. If you have time making a chuck fitting isn't hard, just get an old drill chuck off the bay, find a bolt that screws in the end then turn the bolt to fit tailstock, .......done.

If you don't need a lathe on a permanent basis you can borrow my Unimat for a few weeks if you want to ? It's smaller and lighter than this one and does have a chuck ready to fit in the tail. It's also on a board ready to be clamped down to a work bench or table.

Cheers Rod, Does that mean the chuck fitment itself is threaded and it simply screws in till tight? If so that sees simple enough.

I suspect you are right about so many people having old ones.

That last offer is very very kind, one that I would feel to cheeky taking you up on - and who knows if it might get damaged? Thank you so much for the offer though.

[PESCA]

Dave, from what it looks like you're planning to do, this might work for you:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peatol-Micro- ... 1206145942

George

[some bloke]

Dave,

have you seen this one? http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue ... Baby-Lathe

£247 + £10 p&p

might still be a bit more than you want to pay,

picked mine up off ebay for just under £200, its a copy of the unimat 3/4, size wise the whole thing is only 16'' and easy to pick up and move

cheers jock

Thanks Jock. That's the one I referred to earlier. I'm 10 minutes from the importer of it at Syston so will have a gander this afternoon.
Foremost in my mind is it will still cost me over £300 with the drill chuck to make the few odd trial bits before sticking it in the shed or on the bay. I have no intentions of producing components for sale with it but I guess the temptation is there if only to recoup my outlay.

I know where there is a used one for sale, with a good selection of accessories with it including a tail stock chuck, but can't speak to the guy till next week. I'll likely hang on till then TBH to Rod.


Rods is only likely to cost about £100 by the time I buy fuel to collect it, a motor and chuck. Cutting tools etc will need to be bought for both options. I'm happier to leave £100 in the shed than £300 and less likely to faff about trying to make money with it. i'm confident both will suffice for my needs.

[some bloke]

Dave, from what it looks like you're planning to do, this might work for you:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peatol-Micro- ... 1206145942

George

Nice find George, on my watch list now.

[some bloke]

I've been seduced!

I went over to Syston for a look see at all the Chinese tools and stuff in the importers warehouse and there it was: Lurking - just waiting for me to glance at it - a truly table top CO Baby lathe that I can keep on a shelf in the under stairs cupboard when not in use.

From Midnight till 4~5am, after my early evening shift ends during some week nights I have our local suburban taxi office mobile phone on call divert, taking any phone bookings that come in which interest me. I can run the nice quiet dainty little thing without waking up the family between jobs and after work. I have decided that I will make it pay for itself by making one piece ready to use shorter better focused copper drop-ins for P60 torches available if I can perfect them: Possibly running harder if the copper heatsink does it's job as well as I hope it will. I should also be able to custom make the lower part of the drop-in a light friction fit to further improve the LED cooling path to the torch body.

I can also experiment with the LED re-direct ferrule idea I have spoken of in other posts too.

Hope you forgive me Rod, it had to happen after I saw it.

[rodp]

It's not a problem Dave, not at all. I very rarely sell tools to be honest and have amassed quite a few over the years, I just thought it would help you out that's all buddy. Have fun with your new toy
What you need to do when you get it is trawl around for a machine shop that uses the materials you want to use and buy offcuts, usually quite reasonable for cash. We have a local non ferrous scrap yard quite local and they will sell to the public, you just go in and mooch about picking up what you want then take it and pay.

I learnt a long time ago that If I sell tools and equipment it drives me daft when I come to do a job that would be a lot easier with the tool that was sold Probably the only one I ever sold that I can still see sense in was 5 ton of long bed Cincinnati miller, absolutely beautiful machine with very low hours but just too big to move from premises to premises (or the garage at home) . The one I've just done a deal on at 2 ton max (it looks under 1 ton to me to be honest) will be a lot easier to manage when we move premises again

[some bloke]

Thanks Rod. I've found most of what I'll probably want on the bay.

I'll be able to make make scope mount bushes for my next scopeless bullet cam now too.

[22-250jock]

I've been seduced!

I went over to Syston for a look see at all the Chinese tools and stuff in the importers warehouse and there it was: Lurking - just waiting for me to glance at it - a truly table top CO Baby lathe that I can keep on a shelf in the under stairs cupboard when not in use.

From Midnight till 4~5am, after my early evening shift ends during some week nights I have our local suburban taxi office mobile phone on call divert, taking any phone bookings that come in which interest me. I can run the nice quiet dainty little thing without waking up the family between jobs and after work. I have decided that I will make it pay for itself by making one piece ready to use shorter better focused copper drop-ins for P60 torches available if I can perfect them: Possibly running harder if the copper heatsink does it's job as well as I hope it will. I should also be able to custom make the lower part of the drop-in a light friction fit to further improve the LED cooling path to the torch body.

I can also experiment with the LED re-direct ferrule idea I have spoken of in other posts too.

Hope you forgive me Rod, it had to happen after I saw it.

well done dave,

i'm afraid im the same mate, see something shiney and you get this itch that wont go away......just keep trying to persuade yourself that you need it, and in the end you convince yourself that you have to buy it

cheers jock