My new Harrison lathe

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Phew..

 

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Phew..

I just read your comment and thought wtf ....25 thou lol.

 

[Spark plug]

I think 0.025” would take more that a couple of days

 

[pressbrake1]

Its best to scrap slightly higher at the front for when the scraping flattens out otherwise tailstock will end up pointing down significantly

 

[pressbrake1]

Also scraping a sliding surface to a flat standard which is mating to a even slightly worn bed will accelerate the dropping process

 

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Every day is a learning day with you lot

 

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No scraping today.
But had the afternoon in the paint room.
Getting busy in there...

 

[Gragson]

As impressive as your build is your ability to know where you have all the components big and small, seem to be spread throughout your gaff, enjoy catching up with these buld posts - brilliant stuff

 

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As impressive as your build is your ability to know where you have all the components big and small, seem to be spread throughout your gaff, enjoy catching up with these buld posts - brilliant stuff

Its all over the place gragson. But I thankfully know where all the bits go.

 

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Morning everyone.
Had a bit of a tidy up.. its getting s mess in there. Had enough of scraping for a while. So I dug out the Harrison travelling steady for refurbishing....

 

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The Harrison came with a fixed steady. Unfortunately not the original. Harrison having flat bed ways and this steady is for v ways. Looking at the build/design I would of likely said its probably dsg or similar. But the steady having 8.5 centre height and the Harrison being 9 its definitely workable. A job for pressbrake to machine the bottom of the steady and I will mount it to a nice lump of cast bringing the centre height to 9.

 

[mtt.tr]

The Harrison came with a fixed steady. Unfortunately not the original. Harrison having flat bed ways and this steady is for v ways. Looking at the build/design I would of likely said its probably dsg or similar. But the steady having 8.5 centre height and the Harrison being 9 its definitely workable. A job for pressbrake to machine the bottom of the steady and I will mount it to a nice lump of cast bringing the centre height to 9. View attachment 201624 View attachment 201625 View attachment 201626 View attachment 201627

Seems wasteful, i think id workout what lathe it belongs the and sell it, fixed steadies are simple personally iwould make something sympathetic to the design.

Also the one you have seems a little small for the machine size

 

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Seems wasteful, i think id workout what lathe it belongs the and sell it, fixed steadies are so simple if personally make something sympathetic to the design.

Also the one you have seems a little small for the machine size

Nothing is for sale here. Finding the original is totally impossible. Matching something similar has its challenges. If it wasn't the steady it came with I would only be modifying something else to fit so it might as well be the one it came with. There is only half inch between it so the original wouldn't of been much bigger

 

[mtt.tr]

Nothing is for sale here. Finding the original is totally impossible. Matching something similar has its challenges. If it wasn't the steady it came with I would only be modifying something else to fit so it might as well be the one it came with. There is only half inch between it so the original wouldn't of been much bigger

Id have the rough work flame cut, plasma or water cut you have all the machining capabilities to do all the finish machining.

 

[pressbrake1]

Double vee is unusual on a steady
I know hendey lathes had triple vee beds but that doesn’t explain that steady layout unless bed was very narrow with it bridging to the front saddle vee way

 

[Spark plug]

I will put my money on that steady being a DSG originally, before the bottom was butchered and a second vee cut. There even looks like a scribe mark in the centre of the vee at the front:

All I can say is At least it isn’t a large bore steady or I would be crying.

 

[pressbrake1]

It’s definitely from a class machine

 

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I will put my money on that steady being a DSG originally, before the bottom was butchered and a second vee cut. There even looks like a scribe mark in the centre of the vee at the front:

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All I can say is At least it isn’t a large bore steady or I would be crying.

I never butchered it. It came like that. It will get used for something as I have something different.

 

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I never butchered it. It came like that. It will get used for something as I have something different.

I realised it had came to you like that, I just recognised it as I was sitting next to its friend drinking tea and wanted to solve the mystery.

 

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I realised it had came to you like that, I just recognised it as I was sitting next to its friend drinking tea and wanted to solve the mystery.

Well spotted . I didn't see the scribe line. But it's good to see how it was originally