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| Barker 5x24:
Still no pictures but just had to share some good news. My lathe is a 1947 Barker round bar bed and there's not a lot of them around although three have come up for sale in the last 6 months on ebay! Anyway as you can imagine accessories for this are rarer that gold plated rocking horse poo. Anyway I took a risk on buying fixed and travelling steadies from an advert on Homeworkshop.org. Having received them in the post earlier this week I have tried them on the lathe and they line up damned near perfectly. The fixed steady is 100% spot on and the travelling steady needs a little skim to centre the horizontal arm. Both are screw adjusted with locking screws rather than loosening a bolt and tighten. I have suffered a lot during the learning phase with deflection due to the force of the cutting tool against the workpiece and consequently concave results of the wrong size. The lack of steadies has really hurt me. Well they need a good clean. Currently trying cola on the fixed steady but bought some concrete/tool cleaner today so will empty out the cola and give that a go. The travelling one needs new brass arms as well but all in good time. I am just so chuffed at finding these! :beer: |
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