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13 March 2022 at 21:31 #589731
Steve Purkiss
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Hello to all you metal cutters…

i served my time as a precision engineer in Bournemouth (aero industry) and spent 38 years at Rolls Royce in Bristol…since I retired I have found myself learning Woodturning … but have since bought a 1906 Drummond pre B flatbed lathe….

the smell of oil and grease has not left me…i have since found another 1908 pre B..and intend to mix and Match to get a decent machine..

heres hoping I can get some help if needed…

i live in Yate which is just north east of Bristol …

anyone near ?
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13 March 2022 at 21:31 #41240
Steve Purkiss
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14 March 2022 at 07:38 #589747
Jon Lawes
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Lots of Aero engineers (serving and retired) on this site so you are in similar company.

My Model engineering society is a short distance from you (Westbury in Wiltshire) but you have a Model Engineering Society in Bristol who I'm sure would be very friendly for face to face help.

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14 March 2022 at 08:36 #589757
David-Clark 1
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I too worked in Bournemouth and Poole.

Some aero industry as well. I started out machining industrial sewing machine parts to very tight limits including 4 10ths of a thou measured over 4 components.

Largest components I machined were 4 metres long aerospace parts for the Airbus wing holding fixture for the Supper Guppy. I think they held two wings at a time for an airbus. Great fun.
14 March 2022 at 09:05 #589760
JA
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Steve

The Bristol Society of Model and Experimental Engineers would make you most welcome. We do have a few ex-RR employees. The best way to contact us is through our website, as Jon Lewis's reply, but you could send me a PM.

I live within five of miles from you.

JA
15 March 2022 at 07:29 #589907
David George 1
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Hi Steve welcome to the forum there are quite a lot of Drummond owners on here as well as loads of information that can help. There is a Drummond web site here which can help as well.

https://groups.io/g/drummondlathe/topics?p=recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,89782888

Just ask on here and most questions are answered.

David
15 March 2022 at 09:27 #589925
Howard Lewis
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Welcome Steve!

You can take the man out of Engineering, but you can't take the Engineering out of the man!

Also ex R-R but at Oil Engine Division at Sentinel Works n Shrewsbury.

And we are by no means the only ex R-R men in model engineering.

Have never visited, but The Bristol club used to run a show at Thornbury, so quite an active outfit, I would imagine.

Many a good tune played on a an old fiddle.

I have a friend who produces far better work than I can on a round bed Drummond. (It is probably over a hundred years old now! )

Howard
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