Hello from North London

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

Hello all.

After some months of entertaining lurking I thought it was time I actually signed up here.

I have a fairly standard shed-at-the-end-of-the-garden sort of workshop with a combination of woodworking and metalworking kit.

The kit is: Axminster TS200 table saw, Kity 613 bandsaw, Veritas router table and a Myford-made Drummond M-type lathe, a small Axminster Sieg C1 lathe, Record DMD 30 pillar drill, and a couple of bench grinders. If I ever find room I'll also have the Myford Super 7 and a Dore-Westbury mill that my father has given me . . .

I don't actually do any model making, at least not for the last 45 years or so and then only plastic kits, but when I was growing up my father was always making some loco or other and his mate at the end of the road had a 3 1/2 in gauge track in the garden and a couple of working engines so I'm not quite a stranger to it.

Mostly I just want to fettle the stuff I've got and teach myself to look a bit less like a complete amateur using it. (I am a complete amateur though, the day job is/was in publishing. My father on the other hand was an engineer, designing furnaces and the like in the Black Country, but he is long since retired.)

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Hi Nick welcome to the forum I have an M type Myford/Drummond lathe, quite useful and I have done a few mods to it you can see some of the bits and drawings in my albums.

David

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

Thanks David

I had seen some pics of your lathe a while ago and shamelessly stole the idea of the metal sheet, aluminium I assume, on top of a steel cupboard and have got hold of something similar but with two drawers on top of which my lathe now lives. I think I will copy the idea of the swarf plug next!

I see you also have some pictures from Bletchley Park. If you search the roll of honour on their website for Byrne you will find my mother's name there.

Nick

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

Welcome along Nick. I spent my working life in or around the engineering shops of the Black Country.

[David George 1Participant @davidgeorge1]

Hi Nick thanks. I lashed out on a new slightly larger chuck for mine recently and a new back plate frome lathes.co.uk and it is much better so nice to put a piece of material in the chuck and it runs within a couple of thou without having to clock it up.

David

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

Hello Chris

I was Gornal born and bred so I think I can claim to be a true Yam Yam. Been down here in London nearly 40 years though so my kids dow spake proper . . .

Nick

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

David

My M-type was chuckless when I got it so one of the first things I did was to buy a backplate, also from lathes.co.uk, and fit a four-jaw chuck. I think I got it pretty true but its jaws seem very, very tight so at the moment it's in bits getting a coat of looking over.

Nick

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Nick Passmore on 05/07/2018 11:10:24:

Hello Chris

I was Gornal born and bred so I think I can claim to be a true Yam Yam. Been down here in London nearly 40 years though so my kids dow spake proper . . .

Nick

Hi Nick,

Welcome to the forum, Nick. Brummies, Yam Yams and Yowsers all welcome

Neil

[Nick PassmoreParticipant @nickpassmore75850]

Thanks Neil.

Very broad minded!

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