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Hi All,
Pretty new to the forum. A bit of background on me - I've no background in engineering at all, but I do have a thousands of hours on YouTube watching the machining greats and a positive attitude
All joking aside, I owned a Warco 250V lathe (I think an English badged version the same as a Precision Matthews lathe) and a Warco WM18 Mill. I never had a lot of time to do much with them other than play around so I sold them a while ago. I've now got some more time on my hands and liked the idea of restoring an old lathe rather than buying a new one. I like the style of the old lathes and build quality. I would have liked to get a Colchester or Harrison lathe, but they were just too big to fit in my workshop. As access, I only have a single doorway down a small alley way to get to my workshop, so the bigger lathes were out of the question. After searching around for a while I settled on the idea of getting either a Boxford or Smart and Brown lathe (both of which are English built Southbend 9). After some searching, I found one that was being sold buy a retired engineer who used this as his "home lathe" (whilst having much bigger equipment at work). He was demolishing the shed in his garden and needed everything gone. Whatever I didn't take was going to the scrap yard. So I got all of this:
there's a bunch more that I've not photo'd. Not all of this stuff fits my lathe (or I can use on anything), but I wanted to save it from the scrap yard.
This will take me quite a while to restore I'd imagine (I've kids and a job etc that take most of my time), but I'm looking forward to it.
Pretty new to the forum. A bit of background on me - I've no background in engineering at all, but I do have a thousands of hours on YouTube watching the machining greats and a positive attitude
All joking aside, I owned a Warco 250V lathe (I think an English badged version the same as a Precision Matthews lathe) and a Warco WM18 Mill. I never had a lot of time to do much with them other than play around so I sold them a while ago. I've now got some more time on my hands and liked the idea of restoring an old lathe rather than buying a new one. I like the style of the old lathes and build quality. I would have liked to get a Colchester or Harrison lathe, but they were just too big to fit in my workshop. As access, I only have a single doorway down a small alley way to get to my workshop, so the bigger lathes were out of the question. After searching around for a while I settled on the idea of getting either a Boxford or Smart and Brown lathe (both of which are English built Southbend 9). After some searching, I found one that was being sold buy a retired engineer who used this as his "home lathe" (whilst having much bigger equipment at work). He was demolishing the shed in his garden and needed everything gone. Whatever I didn't take was going to the scrap yard. So I got all of this:
there's a bunch more that I've not photo'd. Not all of this stuff fits my lathe (or I can use on anything), but I wanted to save it from the scrap yard.
This will take me quite a while to restore I'd imagine (I've kids and a job etc that take most of my time), but I'm looking forward to it.
