billrule
7th January 2009, 12:33 AM
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This slightly butchered machine is a Hercus, at least, as far as I understand it. The Saddle has been modified and ?strengthened, well certainly more meat and lots more gib-screws.
The tool-post is not original, and the extra clamping of the topslide also added later. Ironically, because of the dodgy paint-job, the details are easier to make out. Compared to mine, this has precisely the same tailstock, bed, was once the same saddle etc. The curious difference is that the tensioning and countershaft setup look more modern than mine, but the head itself is different, and to my way of thinking, looks older. This pattern with the exposed flat pulleys and no guarding SEEMS old to me, whereas mine has contoured guarding over the back-gear cogs and on the lower half of the whole pulley assembly at the front. I get the impression that mine came with countershaft, but you had to rig up the mounting yourself. Of course, I could be wrong there, and mine could have originally had the same tensioning and mounting hardware, and it got lost. I think I'll ask what the serial number is:rolleyes:
Bill
This slightly butchered machine is a Hercus, at least, as far as I understand it. The Saddle has been modified and ?strengthened, well certainly more meat and lots more gib-screws.
The tool-post is not original, and the extra clamping of the topslide also added later. Ironically, because of the dodgy paint-job, the details are easier to make out. Compared to mine, this has precisely the same tailstock, bed, was once the same saddle etc. The curious difference is that the tensioning and countershaft setup look more modern than mine, but the head itself is different, and to my way of thinking, looks older. This pattern with the exposed flat pulleys and no guarding SEEMS old to me, whereas mine has contoured guarding over the back-gear cogs and on the lower half of the whole pulley assembly at the front. I get the impression that mine came with countershaft, but you had to rig up the mounting yourself. Of course, I could be wrong there, and mine could have originally had the same tensioning and mounting hardware, and it got lost. I think I'll ask what the serial number is:rolleyes:
Bill