Strange mini “turret” lathe?

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Posted by Clive Foster on 08/06/2021 08:26:46:

Michael

SNIP!

A side benefit of driving lessons from my godfather, who claimed to have been trained as a chaffeur by a Rolls Royce, whose mantra was "don't touch the brakes". Pretty much essential if rich bastard in the back is gonna get a smooth ride but also excellent for honing traffic reading and anticipation skills.

Investigation suggested I had about 10 gear changes left before it all went whaooie shape.

Clive

Clive and group,

Many years ago, I drove an Alvis. I had a car repair mentor, 'Charlie', who had previously been an Alvis employee and had gone through the Alvis Chauffeur training school. He told me that during one lesson driving through (I think) Coventry, a young woman had crossed the road in front of them without looking. Charlie hit the anchors and received an admonition along the lines taught by your godfather regarding shaking up the rich guy in the back. In Charlie's case, however, his instructor added the rider: 'besides, never kill crumpet – it's wasteful'.

Not very 'woke' but it was a long time ago!

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by Clive Foster on 08/06/2021 11:55:17:

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Duncan

I'm in sunny Sussex. As I recall one is certainly spherical turning. The other may be but only carries one indicator which would suggest parallel. But its years since I properly looked. You are welcome to them, transport costs (pallet service?) would probably be uneconomic.

Clive

A bit (lot!) too far I fear, I've not been more than 20 miles since lockdown started, and that was to take SWMBO to a hospital appointment. Thanks for the offer tho'

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

We collected the Nissel on Wednesday … all went surprisingly well:

Seller helped me lift it [complete with his little ‘sack barrow’] onto my decorator’s hop-up, and I then slid it into the Suzuki. … Trickiest part was then removing the sack barrow from under the machine !!

It’s very dirty and there are a few scratches from previous attempts at cleaning, but basically it all seems good.

Lots to learn, and lots of tidying to do … but meanwhile I have this for inspiration

**LINK** : https://all-in-optics.de/prototyping-eng/

Scroll down to the ‘Diamond-cutting’ paragraph, and watch the video !!

MichaelG.

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