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bogstandard:
Bernd,

When working with a small shop, we work in inches not feet.

I haven't told anyone on the web about this, but if you remember, I had a bit of trouble with the lathe being not up to scratch. The suppliers offered an upgrade to a much better specced machine, but I couldn't take them up on their offer, because it was about 3 inches too long for the space I had allocated for the lathe, so I had one of the original ones modified to my specs and fitted that. This shop was designed around the largest machines and bits I could fit in there, with no compromises on anything. Hence I have to use ALL available space. I even had to measure whether I could get my shoulders and head between the lathe and the end wall, just so that I could do belt and gear changes, and let me tell you, it is a tight squeeze, but it can be done.

BTW, you should see the state of the floor in my shop, I can manage at just below waist height and above, but the lower parts have to be done by my better half when she is available. Upset her, and I am soon up to my a**e in crap and swarf. I will post up some more shots when it is all finished.

I know it is only joking about me and your space, I envy what you have, and praise you for being able to put it to full use, but really, we should all just accept what we have, and make it the best place to work as we can. There are ways and means to achieve what we do, and we almost always succeed in the end, no matter how much or little we have. It is the doing that is the main thing, and having friends that can handle the little (or big) bits we can't, makes it much easier. I can manage 3ft long on my machine, but have a mate who can machine me something 3ft 1inch long, it is those people who go the extra inch that makes life worthwhile and enjoyable.


John

John Stevenson:
Bogs,
Why the two DRO on the lathe or is it a reflection. ?

John_S

Darren:
I see Bernd,

Tilley is a trade name here in the UK,

Your reply made me look them up, I never thought they'd be worth something as they were made in their millions here.

How wrong can you be?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Tilley-Short-Table-Lamp-Model-TL13_W0QQitemZ170287694171QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Antiques_AntiqueFurniture_SM?hash=item170287694171&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A3|65%3A3|39%3A1|240%3A1318

I guess most things are collectible these days....best not take my advice then Bernd.... :(

Darren:
BTW, we are only jealous.... :(

Seems every time I see an American garage or workshop you can get at least four cars in it, if not six.....

We have garages attached to our houses here in the UK, sometimes you may even be able to shut the door after putting the car in, that's if you can open the door to get out of the car to start with...!!

I kid you not, hardly funny really, but I'll put this chappie in anyways to show spirit  :lol:

bogstandard:
John,

No not a reflection, just a bit of updating of the machine. Over the top maybe, but I can get real accurate results over and over again.

The left hand display is showing metric to three decimal points. The right hand display is still in mill mode and has not yet been set to only four decimal point readout for the imperial readout.

The display head was left over when I updated the mill from 2 to 3 axis readout, and was in my original plans for the lathe before it was even delivered. A couple of read heads, a bit of thinking and this is the result.




A bit of a tight squeeze, but I managed to get one onto the topslide




The tailstock one was a real pain to work out, but I did it by making a slip joint and a bearing supported carriage.





Now with a backstop in the chuck, I can drill multiple parts to thou accuracy with no trouble.

One of the main reasons for doing this are that the dials on the handles are grossly innacurate when using over fairly large ranges, and it was easier to do this than remake accurate handle dials. I don't even look at the handle dials now.

John

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