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And, here's another, close up of the headstock:

Right Mates, I didn't get out to the workshop yet, but here's an obscured shot of the lathe under a welter of odd bits in another (old) photo:

Thanks Matty, I look forward to that. I have some photos on Flikkr, but they are general shots of the rubbish tip my shed degenerates to, and the lathe is secondary. I'll try to get some better ones...

Paul, I've only just fallen over this post, but I can tell you the lathe is damn near a clone of one I bought three years ago as a doer-upper and it's sat unused since. Try "Chekko" lathes on Page...

I'd like to know too. Got two handles, different problems on both(!). There seems to be at least one pin through both wood sides and through the metal 'jam' in the sandwich. I can't work out how to...

Seconded Mike W. Jake has a wonderful knack of puzzling out how summat works and then setting it out clearly and cogently. As an educator of some 26 years standing, I recognize story telling talent...

Been there with FIL and to a lesser extent with my mother. Our thoughts are with you and the family. I'm at too great a distance to help directly, but if something occurs to you just ask:...

Jasus, Murphy and Joseph, that's one FINE bit of work....Jake, "Thank you", yet again for the analysis of the problem, the synthesis of a solution and the elegance of its execution.

Yes, I did...

Thank you! I've just ebayed the dirtiest, most welded up, broken-bits-off 45 you've ever seen and do you know, I think it will do this! Many, many thanks Jake as always, for showing all of us using...

Jake, I'm like many out there, who 'lurk', read messages and never really give away their presence by posting themselves. That is, in part I suppose because we don't get, or don't choose, to spend...

Ethanol, adulterated with Methanol? Methanol as in 'Wood Spirits'?

TTIT...open-mouthed, silent stare of awe; "NICE ONE" mate. I just love to see something simple and straightforward work - and elegantly at that. I was also taken by the design of your castors/lifting...

More detail? Is this the wee green and black job that dismounts and can be trapped in a drill collar? I've had no problem chasing up various spares for mine, despite my local franchise dying and...

Thanks for the prompt reply TTIT; got the bonce round it now. Beisemeyer is the American guru of fences; try putting it in Google and see his wondrous creation from 30 odd years ago. He/his heirs...

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: too!


Humm....er.....um....does the BIG BRASS KNOB/ECCENTRIC clamp onto the face of the rack and press it onto the frame of the saw? (with likewise...

Doug - and your two fidgetting friends - I've got one of these wee beasties too, wouldn't be without it, despite my Elu clone and a big half-inch one on steroids. There are still spare parts to be...

DOOHHH!!! Having a senior moment! That'll teach me to read more slowly. Gotta go, Guide Dog needs walkies.....Sam

Ahhhhhhh......Derek....Derek Cohen???? "Her" inn the post above? I'm actually a bloke .......Derek....The subriquet is actually the product of a family joke, m'h daughter is Vanessa aka "Nessie" and...

Judging by the Civil Service and Tax bumph we get in G.B., there must be a lot of French speaking Canadians writing our literature......(see last bit of previous post if you don't get it...)

If my degenerating grey matter serves me right, this beastie is a 'London Pattern' screwdriver, very common here in Blighty when Oi were a lad. They CAN be made (Jim Kingshot book) and usually came...

Patrick Spielmann had a method...wrote it up in one of his early books on routering...it's late here, look it up for you tomorrow. PM me if I forget.

Cheers, Sam

If you did....would you then get a rebate....on your subscription?

Yoicks!!

This just in from Blighty:

Yup, "Routing" bit the dust(!) and was Borg-like, assimilated, quite futilely, into another mag. The coverage in said mag has been re-heated Ron Fox digests, yadda ya,...

G'Day blokes! I'm grateful for the replies and prompt ones at that. I've already Googled and Myforded et al and the best I can do is replica manuals for the ML8 from the "Lathes" site above; trouble...

I've recently acquired one of the very first (i.e. cream-coloured) ML8 lathes. The wee beastie came with no documentation at all, so I'm playing the old trial and error game. Rather than bandjax the...

I've recently acquired one of the very first (i.e. cream-coloured) ML8 lathes. The wee beastie came with no documentation at all, so I'm playing the old trial and error game. Rather than bandjax the...

Aw shucks, Mick.

GAWD!!!!! This one has been round the clock a few times!

I have no doubt that the malting plant was shifting tons more dust per time interval than most domestic/small professional posters to...

Lou, motion seconded. Let's use this forum for informative exchange FIRST humour second. And yes folks, I realise I am a 'newbie', yes, I have indulged in tongue in cheek comments, but only as a...

Regarding the first page of postings on the original topic..."Thong thung blue, ever'body knows one..." with apologies to Neil Diamond.

Sean, greetings from "De Nort" (Northern Ireland in a Southern accent for all you non-etymological types). There are several reasons for non-parallelism in planer tables... one of which can be sussed...

What wide jaws? Did someone slip in a cracking tip while I was saying " yes dear" to SWMBO?

For the record NewLou, once obtained, said Workm8's can be jigged, tricked, bodged and adapted in all...

C'mon! EVERYBODY needs a Workmate!....... If you do decide to conform to the norm, (emphatically NOT "Norm") see you get one of those nice wide ones. You are not supposed to climb up on Workmates;...

This for lacewood et al. The definitive MIT article can be found at:


http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rodec/woodworking/articles/DC_myths.html


Happy browsing to all in the Southern Hemisphere....

There has been a lot of correspondence/e-mails and general chatter on this. The definitive article can be found in several forums, written by a woodworking Mathematician from MIT! The long and the...

Murky Buckets DPB, the edit function had passed me by.

Thanx to U 2 Termite, onerful spelin is a kolektor's eyetem in these daze of spel chekkers.

Er.... that should have been "treat" not "teat" lads, I'm a bit sensitive about mis-typing after what you did to Chook......

If you go down to your local (GB) swimming pool, they take delivery of vast quantities of chlorine-based treatment chemicals in large circular bins. The beauty of this is the Staff usually can't wait...

Fellas! Fellas! the man is "not quite fifty" .........HORMONES not genes are responsble; I suggest more beer is required. This will effectively dilute those wicked chemicals to the point where they...