Lathe identification

[jacobsmessParticipant @jacobsmess]

Thanks so much for the super helpful and insightful response. I will absolutely be in touch when I have questions. Your response is incredibly useful in providing a guide to learning how to use the lathe.  I’ve also fairly recently got a mill and I’ve learnt a bit on that so there should be some transferable skills

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Apologies for the confusion.

Moral: At ny age should not rely on memory!

But the Loughborough is a lovely little machine.

Probably a new capacitor (Likely to be less than a tenner) should cure the starting problem (A friend, for years started his Myford ML4 by pulling the belt round to start it, rather than fit a new capacitor!)

Once cleaned and set up you will be able to do a LOT of good work on it.

As part of the learning process, use it to make tools, such a sliding Tailstock Die Holder, and use a drill chuck, fixed to a piece of bar, as a sliding Tailstock Tap Holder.

Simple, but useful and a good way of gaining experience and confidence.

If there isn’t a 4 jaw independent chuck with it, it will be worth getting one. They can be VERY useful; but you will need to make up a unoque backplate to mount a nodern Metric dimensioned chuck to the Imperial spindle. For this you will need to find someone to cut the Imperial thread. The rest of the work you can do on the Loughborough

You will need at least one DTI and a magnetic base for setting up the lathe, anyway, and later it will be used to set work in the 4 jaw.

You will now have the capability to do all sorts of jobs that previouysly would have seemed impossible.

Howard

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

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If you haven’t got any books, one or more of these may be mhelpful.

L H Sparey “The Amateur’s lathe”

Sran mBray “Basic Lathework”

Harold Hall “Lathework-A Complete Course”

Tubal Cain “Model Engineer’s Handbook” is a useful reference book.

And you will use a set of Zeus Charts a lot of the time, although the latest editions re Metric , but still include details of BSW and BSF threads as well as Unified A bit sparse on BA, now.

Howard

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

It looks like it comes with a SEAGULL outboard mounting bracket – Always useful when you are “all at sea”.

Barnacle Bill

[jacobsmessParticipant @jacobsmess]

David, following the somewhat sudden relieving of my work duties (ahem redundancy) I’ve found mysef with some spare time to clean up the lathe, fix the capacitor, open up the stand to use as storage, update the electronics, fit an NVR switch and most importantly, get the serial number! It’s 1091. For some reason I thought it was difficult to see from the front and that I’d need to pull the lathe out to find it but after cleaning it all up I had a good look and found it, exactly where you described.

[David SeniorParticipant @davidsenior29320]

Sorry to hear you have got more free time than you want! However, thanks for the serial number – I have now added it to the list on the Raglan forum.

Dave

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