Grayson Lathe

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28 August 2011 at 20:06 #21925
Mike Wainwright
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28 August 2011 at 20:06 #74105
Mike Wainwright
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I have been given a Grayson lathe that my dad had been restoring. Does anyone have any information on this lathe. There is several articles in Model engineer in the 1980’s. Issue 146 and 147 but any information would be helpful
28 August 2011 at 20:16 #74106
Nicholas Farr
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Hi Mike, this link may help you, thats if you haven’t tried it already.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/grayson/index.html

Regards Nick
29 August 2011 at 07:09 #74112
Mike Wainwright
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Thanks NIck

I have already looked there. The lathe does not have a motor and I am looking for some sort of technical ref to give me a guide as to what motor to get for it.

It has everything else with the lathe so it would be great to get it working.

Pictures to follow this afternoon

Mike
29 August 2011 at 09:52 #74123
Nicholas Farr
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Hi Mike, have you looked at the other lathes mentioned in the link, i.e. the Granville, Randa and the Warwick. These show pictures with motor arrangements on them. One of the Randa photos quotes a 1/3 HP (250 ish Watt) motor. I have my late farthers Randa type B lathe, which is drivn by an old 1/4 HP washing machine motor, and it copes without any problems.

All these lathes are very much the same sort of size and basic design, as was the Pools special.

Regards Nick.
29 August 2011 at 12:53 #74137
Mike Wainwright
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Thanks Nick
29 August 2011 at 13:07 #74138
John Stevenson 1
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A lot of these lathes of this era came without any paperwork at all.

They were built to a price and anyone buying one was expected to know how to use or set one up.

They are that crude that it’s obvious how they worked and spares list even if printed isn’t going to do any good today.

Reminds me of the old quote “Spares Parts ? there are no spare parts, everything fitted is needed !”

Tony’s lathe site at http://www.lathes.co.uk is about as good as it gets.

John S.
29 August 2011 at 16:18 #74151
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My 3-1/2″ centre Grayson has a 1/3 HP British Thompson Houston motor on a bit of a lash up countershaft.

It also has an interesting mod someone has added 1/2″ plates/risers under both the headstock and tailstock now making it a 4″ centre machine.

I think mine dates from around 1930, it has direct drive from the apron (if you can call it that) handwheel which means the handwheel turns “backwards”.

Regards

Paul
29 August 2011 at 17:46 #74161
Flywheel
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Hi Mike

I had a Grayson until about 4 years ago, it served me well, the change wheels were 20 DP same as Myford, but held with a 1/16″ dia pin instead of a key, the crosslide thread was very worn so I bored out what was left of the old thread and adapted a Myford crosslide nut which is still working OK , I sold the Lathe to a friend and he was quite happy with it,

Hope this might be of help to you

Regards
22 May 2013 at 22:00 #120472
JGF
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I have a granville CSL2 3.1/2" lathe that I am trying to restore and I need a few parts for it any of you guys know of any spares antwhere i would love to know. My lathe came with the original motor and it is 1/3rd Hp and it owrks great with this lathe.
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