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Florian:
Hello Everyone!

Like many others, I don't want to continue writing in the HMEM since I don't want to loose rights on my own pictures and posts.

Well; I live in Switzerland; the age is 25 (26 very soon), and I study mechanical engineering after having done something like a high school. (the system is a little different here in switzerland...)

I did restore a lathe for my shop, its a Schaublin 102 VM and am currently waiting to assemble my milling machine after I overhauled the guideways and reinforced some parts of it.

I got into this hobby very early; made my first parts on the lathe with 15 years because I wanted to make my own steam engine. Then some more steam engines followed, some boilers as well and then I had the opportunity to buy a watchmakers lathe. That helped with many pars, as I had now the possibility to build with more precision.
Then, about 4 years ago, I bought my big lahte, used and very dirty and started disassembling everything.
After having it painted; I discovered that I also had to overhaul the guideways and decided to have the bed ground.
For all of the other Surfaces, I learned scraping and finally finished my lathe just one Year ago.

And here some pictures of it:










guideway-guards; they are very useful!






And the very first chips produced on this lathe:



At the moment, I am still at my milling machine and I will present it to you as soon as it has been finished.


Regards, Florian

Rob.Wilson:
Hi  :wave: and Welcome to Madmodder  Florian


Good to here a young lad  taking the time and effort  to restore his machines , That a very nice lump of quality  Swiss engineering you have there in that lathe and looking at the photos it looks like you have made an excellent job of breathing new life into the machine  :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:



Rob 

dsquire:
Florian

Welcome to MadModder. I am sure that you will find some familiar friendly faces here. It looks like you have done a real top notch job on your lathe. We look forward to seeing your mill as well when you have it completed.  We are glad to see you here and look forward to your participation in the various forums.

Cheers  :beer:

Don

doubleboost:
Hi
Florian
Welcome to Madmodder :beer: :beer:
That is a beutifull lathe you have there :drool: :drool:
Do you have any pictures of it before it was restored
John

Florian:
Hi John

Yes, I have :


That one is just after delivery:


And here, i had already started taking it apart:



Regards Florian

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