Perhaps it is just a coincidence in names, but I use a piece of Fearnought as a protector for the top of my dining room table. It consists of a thick (about 5/16&quot layer of felt type material bonded to a simulated leather top side. Bought it many moons ago. A quick search on the www doesn't come up with any suppliers, so it probably is no longer available.

Merriam Webster defines Fearnought as: a thick heavy overcoating that is made of wool often mixed with shoddy and that has a rough shaggy face; also : a garment made of this material.

Dave
The Emerald Isle

I remember those. My nan had one.

Neil

You could always power the line shafting with an Electric motor

I am making a similar arrangement for my three lathes with a line shaft powered from a motor, although at present I don't have a belt-driven drill to incorporate.

A very worthwhile occupation to bring these old machines to life as they would have been when made

Edited By Ralph H on 26/08/2015 14:18:48

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Well done, Sir !

… Oh to have the space for such projects.

MichaelG.

Since we are talking about "Fearnought" rather than Dsel's Fearnaught, may I mention that there are at least two references in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels. One definition of the cloth sense is:

fearnought A stout woolen cloth used as clothing in cold weather. Also, a thick felt used to cover the outside door of a powder MAGAZINE, portholes, and HATCHWAYS during battle. Also called “dreadnought screen.”

When our hero has a cold he is offered "fearnought draught" which has the interesting characteristic that it has to be drunk in twos, "or the first glass is mortal"!

Not to be confused with Dreadnoughts. Those with merchant navy connections may remember the little 'kits' issued by the ship's doctor for use in foreign ports. They were so named after being produced by the Dreadnought seaman's hospital at Greenwich. You can work out the use of them for yourselves!

Dave
The Emerald Isle

I did look at my reprint of the old Strelinger & Co catalogue but none of their brackets would suit your type of plummer block. Most of theirs can use a bracket (slotted) for horizontal adjustment but the vertical is within the actual plumber block.

J

Dsel, you'll need to get out and about, it's old shearing sheds you need to look at (not blade, but machine sheds), the old sheds were run on line shafts.

When I was a pupil at Tech in Dunedin in the early 1960s the workshops there were run by line shaft, all machinery but one, a newly installed Chipmaster lathe.

Ian S C

Edited By Ian S C on 27/08/2015 12:11:36

I hope you are going to have a proper setup with individual machine fast and loose pulleys for the belts to run on the line shaft.

In my youth I remember a large press tooling workshop, all manner of punching and forming machines. One I remember had been refurbished in 1911 or so the plate said.