Thread: Old lathe

G'day all,

Today I finally got around to doing what I had planned for an old wood lathe that was given to me a while ago. It was supposed to be a non functioning unit and was only intended as either scrap or for anything I could salvage from it that I could possibly make some use of on my property.
As I already have a Durden lathe which serves my purposes well enough, I had no real use for another, so what I had decided was once I had proven that the head stock (with the motor inside) was still functional, I wanted to remove it from the lathe bed and set it up on my bench as a dedicated buffing machine. So after removing the head stock from the rest of the lathe bed and fitting a new power lead, it was fired up and ran quite well. So I spent the rest of the day cleaning it up and turning up a new spindle on the metal lathe to where I now have the basis for a nice dedicated buffing machine.
Anyhow, the real reason for this post is that I am now left with the remnants of the left overs and though there is a certain amount of surface rust, it all seems quite useable to someone who has the need or ability to make use of my left-overs.
The lathe itself is stamped with a plate reading 1/2 HP 50hz GMF Brook Crompton Betts P/L. Manufactured in 1995 in the 9th month, Model #1-Took1440 with a 1 metre bed capacity. I'll need my glasses to read the serial number if anyone is interested.
So if anyone has any use for what's left over, they are more than welcome to it.
Sorry for the long drawn out description, bit I thought it best to explain how this all come about.

Regards,
Bob