For full details, please see the article in issue 21 of MEW, January February 1994, available to digital subscribers in the archive. Download individual pages as jpg images (right-click and view): Download sheet 1 as a PDF here. Download sheet 2 as a PDF here. Well, that’s the complete set of free plans given out…
Further details can be found in MEW issue 20, November/December 1993. Note that a digital subscription is needed to access the archive of back issues. Right-click these thumbnails to view whole pages: Alternatively, you can download the two sheets of the plan as PDFs: Side 1Side 2 As always, many thanks to Nick Farr for…
I first bought my Unimat 3 nearly thirty years ago and took no time at all to become thoroughly disenchanted with the O-ring drive belt system. Although small, the lathe itself was quite evidently capable of some good work, but the irritation of disentangling the drive belt from itself, and all too frequently replacing them…
As editor, it’s one of my hopes to visit various Model Engineering societies and see their facilities for myself. Having visited a few already, it’s apparent that there is a great variation between them in facilities and the interests of members. What they all seem to have in common is a shared facility with good…
It give the inch equivalents for the following systems: The reason wire (and sheet metal) gauges get smaller as the number increases is that the originated as the number of times a wire was pulled through a die to make it thinner (or sheets run through rollers). 18 gauge wire originally meant it had been…
The ingenious design requires rather less effort to construct than a "Jacob's" style hobber, but naturally it does occupy the lathe meaning you can't easily use it for other tasks. It is probably best to make all you blanks and shafts before you set it up to make gears. In principle, the design could be…
Full details of how to construct the jig and advice on its use can be found in issue 17. Download a full-resolution PDF of side 1 here Download a full-resolution PDF of side 2 here Right-click the images below to open JPEGs of individual pages of the plan:
At the very least, those seeking to run their lathe regularly at higher speeds may wish to consider this roller-bearing conversion described by Ken Willson. You may download the article HERE This article originally appeared in the Model Engineers Workshop issue 175 April 2011.
