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Hello everyone I recently purchased a do upper Boxford CSB lathe. It uses a bench mounted countershaft and motor combined unit, bolted separate from the lathe at a suitable location. I believe this is not the normal unit supplied with the CSB lathe, it appears to be the more generic drive unit...

Hi there. I have an older lathe with a slightly unusual 1 1/4" toolpost size. I want to expand the toolrests I have. I have ordered some tubing to sleeve 1" and 1 1/8" toolrests, however I notice that brand new Woodtek lathes appear to have 1 1/4" toolpost size. I can see on ebay several sellers...

We are currently living in an ongoing "doer upper" house and at some point in the future we are planning to replace all the windows and doors, and to have cavity wall insulation installed. I am wondering if it is better to do one before the other? My current thinking is that we should replace...

Wanted, around Stevenage area, any large pieces of wood, eg a rootball from a felled tree, for woodturning, up to 2 or 3 feet diameter. Almost anything I can fit into a hatchback considered!

I am looking for one of these: Clamping Hand Lever - 303 Stainless Steel (WDS 8925), Ball Handles But they only sell stainless or steel which has been chemically blacked. Any cheaper ones out there from a mild steel that are silver coloured? perhaps chrome plated?

1973 Union Graduate For Sale I have owned this for about 5 years. Only for sale as I have purchased a bigger lathe. It comes with a Wadkin free standing tool rest, I used it with the short bed removed for large diameter work, over 1 metre diameter is possible. Also included is an...

This is a heavy duty tool rest banjo for a wood lathe or metal spinning lathe. It has a 1 1/8" diameter toolpost hole, with clamp bolt although there is room to bore it out larger. The height of the banjo is 6", making it suitable for many 8" centre height lathes such as the Wadkin RS8, but is...

I have a 3HP 3 phase motor, currently configured for 380v voltage only, so only 3 wires. I can see inside there is a star point if I wanted to carefully unpick the wires and convert it to 240v operation. My concern is that while cleaning out some dust, a fair bit of varnish had visibly flaked...

I wonder if anyone with an Axminster SK114 chuck could take a look at the back for me and see whether it would be possible to bore a 2" thread in the body, or whether there is not enough material for that? The largest thread they offer is 1 1/2". I wonder if 2" would fit. I have attached a photo...

I am looking for a spanner for 3" across flats, for a lathe spindle. Needs to be an open ended spanner. Or, a 75mm spanner, which I can grind slightly to fit. If anyone has either of these sizes floating around, please send me message.

I am taking delivery of this metal spinning lathe soon - although I am hoping to convert it to a heavy duty wood lathe. The design appears to be influenced by the Taylor spinning lathes of the 1950s. The seller also recently sold a Taylor spinning lathe, and it looks like the Taylor banjo got...

Hi there So I am taking delivery of a lathe soon which I will be restoring, and once I have got all the rust off the bed I want it to stay that way, I have been looking at the various common ways of doing this and I don't see any mention of using a sacrificial anode such as a block of zinc or...

Hello everyone, I do alot of woodturning and as a result end up with alot of wood dust/shavings all over the floor. I tend to scoop it up and store it in airtight plastic containers, before giving it away for chicken/pet bedding or putting it on the garden. I also use it to slowly dry roughly...

Hello everyone. I have purchased a wood lathe which is in the region of 500kg and the bed is cast as part of the headstock, I don't think it can be easily split into pieces for transport. I wonder if anyone on this forum would like to quote for moving it or know anyone who can? I can send...

Hello everyone I am a keen hobby woodturner and have got hold of a pallet load of oak tree outer edges, with various burls attached. I am slowly cutting them into circular blanks for wood turning, however several of them are too big for my bandsaw. After the new lockdown is over, I wonder if...

Hello everyone I currently do not any reversing jaws for my chuck, for holding a completed bowl and finishing off the base, remove tennon etc. I was debating buying a set of the 4 large quadrant style jaws with rubber buttons, and then I came across this in a few places: Its called a...

Hi there Sadly now that The Toolpost are closing down, I have not seen anyone else that sells faceplates that have the dual threaded 1 1/2" Whitworth thread. For a Union Graduate lathe this is very convienent as it allows the same faceplate to be mounted on either side of the headstock. Are...

Please don't ask me why I have so many gears. I bought these over time, always intending to find a use for them but never have! I believe they are all metal lathe changewheels, but might have another purpose 8DP: 6 spline 0.9" bore 3/4" width: 16Tx3, 20Tx4, 22Tx2, 24T,26T,30T,32T,34Tx2...

Hello everyone I have a Union Graduate wood lathe, which supposedly could be purchased with a fairly simple light duty metal turning carriage: I have never seen one for sale specifically for the Union Graduate, only the smaller Union Jubilee. Also it appears this setup would not be able to...

Hello everyone I have been trying to find someone to do a small metworking job I need doing, one simple metal lathe job and a simple milling machine job both in mild steel. However the general metalworking companies I have approached so far have responded with "what is your company name"...