Drawings of Wadkin lathe tooling?
Hi All,
As I posted a few days ago I have a Wadkin RU Patternmaking Lathe. When I was the winning bidder at the auction I was working overseas and wasn't able to pick up the lathe. As a result of this I think that the bidders who won the other RU and the 3 RS lathes also sold snaffled almost all of the associated tooling so I didn't get any faceplates or tool rests for my lathe.
I'm making a few patterns to cast some faceplates for the inboard and outboard spindles and I have a friend who can machine the threads into them so I'm covered there.
I'm putting out the call however to anyone of the forum who has drawings of parts or the patterns (even a good set of photos from different angles would help) of the following:
Straight Toolrests (mainly interested in the cross section and how the post [round bar] connects to the cast rest I can probably work it out from there)
Right angle Toolrest (I've only seen an image online)
Right Angle Banjo
Free Standing Outboard Toolrest and Swivel arm
If I can get enough information to make the patterns I plan to have the parts cast and then machine them into the finished state.
Should people be interested I can add extra castings for supply at cost to others on the forum. Probably most useful to people in Melbourne given the weight of most of the parts.
Cheers,
Richard