jinjahbiscuit
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I bought this off the flea bay a couple of years ago for 120 quid. Quickly assembled it in the shed to keep all the bits together and then proceeded to bury it with junk.
I've no idea what model it is or even the size, it was a bit tatty and just about a runner (though I never ran it) and had a new motor, so I thought it would suit my purposes of knocking up the odd spacer or something if and when I needed one, it being a bit bigger than the Unimat I got from Wallace previously (still going!).
Anyway........
I then got the ML7 and my S. Holmes became redundant - not that it actually ever went to work.
So I packed it up and sent to my place in the Philippines:
Cross and top slides, tail stock and some other bits during the cleaning process.
The lathe bed and part of the lead screw, with a broken cast lug just visible.
Cast iron legs from the tail stock end.
Legs from the head stock end being cleaned up.
Everything was cleaned using wire brushes, scrapers and elbow grease. No citric acid baths here!
Between three of us we got the whole thing stripped and cleaned in about 4 days (a couple trips outside for lunch and a beer or two included).
I've not touched the head stock yet, I'm saving that for my next trip in November.
All this was a couple of weeks ago.
I've no idea what model it is or even the size, it was a bit tatty and just about a runner (though I never ran it) and had a new motor, so I thought it would suit my purposes of knocking up the odd spacer or something if and when I needed one, it being a bit bigger than the Unimat I got from Wallace previously (still going!).
Anyway........
I then got the ML7 and my S. Holmes became redundant - not that it actually ever went to work.
So I packed it up and sent to my place in the Philippines:
Cross and top slides, tail stock and some other bits during the cleaning process.
The lathe bed and part of the lead screw, with a broken cast lug just visible.
Cast iron legs from the tail stock end.
Legs from the head stock end being cleaned up.
Everything was cleaned using wire brushes, scrapers and elbow grease. No citric acid baths here!
Between three of us we got the whole thing stripped and cleaned in about 4 days (a couple trips outside for lunch and a beer or two included).
I've not touched the head stock yet, I'm saving that for my next trip in November.
All this was a couple of weeks ago.
