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Colchester steadies are about...but they are hefty price..
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Hopefuldave
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Try finding Holbrook steadies...
I'm making my own fixed steady, 10" OD, inch and an eighth thick pipe flange and a fair bit of turning/milling/welding, only way I'll get one.
I do have a travelling steady, bought in error for the wrong Holbrook, if anyone has a model H 17...
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I'm making my own fixed steady, 10" OD, inch and an eighth thick pipe flange and a fair bit of turning/milling/welding, only way I'll get one.
I do have a travelling steady, bought in error for the wrong Holbrook, if anyone has a model H 17...
Dave H. (the other one)
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Yes some are impossible to find. Still looking for a mellor lathe travelling steady. I will find one
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Travelling steadies for the Colchesters were fitted as standard equipment so there’s no reason they should be rare... but they are. A bit like the factory toolkit in a car, someone’s always nicked it.
I have fiiiinally found a fixed steady for my Bantam. What a mission that was. I was talking to the guy at Bede tools and he said whilst Bantam spares aren’t necessarily rare, as soon as they hit the market they disappear within a week. I can believe it too, bidding goes crazy whenever bits are listed online.
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I have a travelling steady for a bantam...pretty sure its bantam.
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Looks like this. Worth a pretty penny, at least £50 if the markets are to be believed...
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I am lucky I found a traveling steady in the box of rusty stuff that came with my Boxford the fixed one is er fixed with rust too
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Only 50.
Last I saw for mine was 140 and 180 for the fixed.
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I will have a look tomorrow.
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Pssh £180? Child’s play!
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Send that my way if you want boss.
Great donor for my traveling steady build.
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Priceless......
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Loads of chancers looking for above the odds... I was just amazed it realised that price!
What’s that steady made of @spencer 427 ? Mine are aluminium I think. Very light but with steel fingers with bronze tips.
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Cast steel. Very heavy.
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I haven't actually no. I acquired it with some other stuff.Did you do a spark test to see if it was cast iron or steel?
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Did you ever end up getting those machines from the woods? The rapidor and the ring roller I think
