Thread: Specifications for an A.E Herbert wood Lathe

One pic doubled up, here is the one I meant




Dave the turning cowboy

turning wood into art

Hi,I am also doing up a Herbert wood lathe,I am lucky I have all the bits but still need to get a morse taper that suits,a #1morse taper I think,any machine workshop should be able to turn a shaft,Mendham Engineering at Rocklea should be able to help. Cheers Alan.

Dave have you done yours up yet?

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Dave have you done yours up yet?

Not yet. Lacking time to work on it but it will happen sooner or later

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

Not yet. Lacking time to work on it but it will happen sooner or later...

You are a very busy person.

Originally Posted by Christos

You are a very busy person.

Tell me about it. Oh you just did. If i can fix one lathe a year I think I have enough to keep me till I retire. Man that either makes me sound old or like i have a lot of lathes

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Dave,
If you've done a few of these or can tell by inspecting it, do you know how I would be able to reverse the arrangement of the pulleys in the headstock of the Herbert Type C you posted pics of. I built a stand for it intending to reverse the orientation of the motor and hence need to reverse the pulleys so they line up small to large with the large to small pulleys of the headstock. Trouble is I can't see how the shaft can be removed from the bearings.

BTW, It looks like on the photo that your lathe only has only one pulley on the motor, is that correct.

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

Tell me about it. Oh you just did. If i can fix one lathe a year I think I have enough to keep me till I retire. Man that either makes me sound old or like i have a lot of lathes

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

Can you post a pic of you headstock again

I'm assuming your's is the one with a solid cat headstock enclosing the pulleys

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art

it's the same unit as your pic no. 1 in your post #16 of this thread. You can have the motor mounted below or behind the headstock but you have to remove the shaft in order to replace the v belt so it must be easy enough to do. I think the flange at the right hand side of the stock is part of the shaft so you would have to drive the shaft out towards the bed side of the lathe but not sure. If the former is true though I somehow have to remove the conical shaped saw blade arbour on the other side of the headstock which is held on with a brass press fit bushing. I don't want to damage this bushing as I don't have a replacement.

Yes you have to remove spindle and bed shaft to mount underneath. Im not at my lathe till tomorrow but will jave a quick look when im there.

Dave TTC
Turning Wood Into Art