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    Possibly the layout for the pattern with contraction and machining added.
    This was done and you’d then pick up the sizes with a pair of dividers rather than a rule.
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    Jimcracks for the rich and/or wealthy. (aka GKB '88)

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    The hand wheel that I chose was too big so I needed to get a bush luckily it was a standard imperial size 1" and 3/4 bore. £2





    I always enjoy doing the tags

    A big PK comes in handy for laying finished parts out

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    Looking nice Mark ! .

    With the tags . Did you touch the plating on that tag ? Or just paint the background . I find touching it with anything rubs the plating off pretty quick . Im just wondering if you have a trick for that ?
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    With the thick cast tags like this one I just spray the whole thing and remove the raised bits with some fine emery wrapped around a block of wood. With the thin tin tags its a lot harder because the raised portion is so thin, I find I can sometimes just spray the whole tag and with super fine paper and a blunt pointer I can rub the paint off the high spots, but its really hard not to touch the background. You have to be carefull because there just nickel plate and that comes off pretty easy.120220113920.jpg

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    Can’t wait to see this finished, looking beautiful mate. Your shop is going to be unrivalled soon!

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    My shop is an absolute pig sty at the moment, I've a few thousand flooring blocks and all my machines crammed in a corner with piles of tooling and machine switches. I cant wait to get it sorted

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    Quote Originally Posted by wallace1973 View Post
    My shop is an absolute pig sty at the moment, I've a few thousand flooring blocks and all my machines crammed in a corner with piles of tooling and machine switches. I cant wait to get it sorted
    +1 (except I've only got two Wadkin flooring blocks).

    Maybe we should have a thread on whose shed is the least workable due to too much junk and too many parts...

    I'd be in the top five .

    Cheers, Vann (who's just found that 45" is the longest I can resaw on my bandsaw before I hit a cabinet ).
    Gatherer of rusty planes tools...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vann View Post
    +1 (except I've only got two Wadkin flooring blocks).

    Maybe we should have a thread on whose shed is the least workable due to too much junk and too many parts...

    I'd be in the top five .

    Cheers, Vann (who's just found that 45" is the longest I can resaw on my bandsaw before I hit a cabinet ).

    Sorry but you guys are all in the runner up category, I have that one sewn up. My machines are scattered in several temporary locations, a few in disarray as I wait to finish my new workshop.


    As for this lathe, I'm afraid that it falls into the same category as that other reprobate causing trouble by doing up his DR. It just creates mass envy and feelings of inadequacy amongst us mere hacks.

    Have fun,
    Alli

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    When I have a machine that's not going to be restored for a while I cover it with waxoyle, this was left over from when I was a kid and had a little MG car. That makes this tin 25 years old :shock: Anyway this lathe has been stood outside with minimal cover for a year. I have found it works its way into parts and helps a lot when dissembling.


    They had some pitting so I cleaned them up with the ROS

    Then finished with scotchbrite

    The wadkin lettering is probably the worst I've come across, the casting mould must have messed up because it was a mess. Its took alot of work with burr's and mini grinding discs on the dremmel to tidy it up.


    On the subject of messy shops, I emptied one end of my place into the other end in preparation for laying the flooring.




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    Quote Originally Posted by wallace1973 View Post
    ...The wadkin lettering is probably the worst I've come across, the casting mould must have messed up because it was a mess. Its took alot of work with burr's and mini grinding discs on the dremmel to tidy it up.
    Are the headstocks on RS lathes cast aluminium? Or is that just way the light falls on the casting in this photo?

    Cheers, Vann.
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    Its just some light trickery, a couple of the letters were joined together with cast and there were lots of voids. That chemical metal filler worked pretty well

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    I thought I would try some filling primer for the lettering, I wasn't impressed by the stuff I tried.




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    I plan on running this with a vfd and will need to cut a hole in the electrickery door to mount the control panel, the one on this was far to nice to be chopping up so I paid my old dealer a visit and he had a plane one.


    I find its best to clean the detail out with a small drill bit, if you use a wire wheel it removes metal and round the edges.

    I have started to put bits back together so it shouldn't be long now

    While I was rutting around at the dealers I found this carriage, it must be from a very early RS.

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    I always enjoy doing the letters. this one is not the best I've done but good enough





    I've never come across brass hinges before



    I cut a hole in the door to put the control pad



    I paid a visit to Fred Didnahs workshop recently, he was one of my childhood heroes. A guy bought the place after freds death and has been running it as a heritage centre. He's now retiring and selling everything, literally every nut, bolt and rivet.
    This is his power hammer that helped make his engines

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    Loving the progress, thanks as always for the pics!

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