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steampunkpete:
Having cut my teeth on Myfords as a new engineering graduate in the early 1970s, I'm heading to retirement at the end of this year. I have recently set myself up with a Clarke version of the C3 mini-lathe and a pillar-drill. Currently I'm doing various of the common fixes on the C3. (Saddle gibs, T-slots for the cross-slide, better gibs for the cross and compound slides, taper-bearings for the headstock, hand-wheel for the lead-screw so far).

I'm planning to get a milling machine of a similar size to the C3 (I'm very short of space). If anybody out there has any advice on which one to get I'd be grateful.

I like the idea of steampunk and am thinking about projects in that direction. I tried a walking stick to get my hand back in, but it turned out early-Jetsons instead.
I also have a one-sixth scale WWII Jeep on the blocks, being a representation of one used by my father.

If I can't think of anything else when I need to relax after a b*****y day at work I'll just turn some scrap into swarf - how sad is that.

Meldonmech:

  Hi Pete

                       Welcome to MadModder.

                                                              Cheers David

krv3000:
hi and welcume

Brass_Machine:
Hi Pete,

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Would like to see you work on the C3. A few of us have them and have been modding them. Would be nice to compare notes.

Eric

Bangkok Mick:
I also lived in St. Albans for many years and still have family there.

Welcome to the forum.

Cheers Mick

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