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The motor is mounted on a board hinged to the stand with a bracket to adjust tension (visible on the second picture just be low the drive centre). I've seen similar on old metalworking lathes. The motor is similar to others around his workshop: his homemade sawbench and large disk sander use...

Democritus, a good point about the motor; it's likely that it was positioned to work with whatever belts he had available and we don't remember him turning bowls. We will keep that in mind when it goes to its new home. Andy

John, thanks for your comments. F-i-L was a joiner who for a while in the '50s worked on maintenance in factories with a machine shop; it's possible that he rescued it or something that he builtduring slack periods - sadly we will neer know. My wife remembers it being in the shed from the...

We are clearing out my father-in-law's workshop. Is anyone able to identify this lathe? It's a bench top model on a shop made stand. There is no maker's id as far as I can see. Three speed belt drive from separate motor mounted on the stand. Tailstock and tool rest have a single bolt...

A couple of years ago I looked at replacing two twin 5 foot battens attached below the roof trusses with cheap LED panels between the trusses. The information for the cheap panels was very limited - light output and 'lifetime', nothing on switching cycles or light spread. My current battens...