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http://www.horia.ch/en/Products/Tools/Screwdrivers/Set-of-screwdrivers-1.html these for first choice

Does it fit the back of your Rolex?

Some progress pictures from today! It's solid, if nothing else!

I lost a tooth... ouch..

yes that's how it works :)

hopefully my nice laminated timber benchtop will be here by the weekend. then I can do a bit more.

the three pulleys are for reverse and forward. the bearing hangers are probably 1930's the same as the lathe. the bigger pulley is for PTO to a wheel cutter etc. one day, and the cones run to the lathe. some more pictures of the shaft assembly, I picked it up on ebay and did some work on it...

where do I start. 6 years ago I bought a F. Lorch toolroom lathe from Germany. it was a MESS. in the last 6 years its had periods in storage, times of major restoration, and a lot of money spent on it. its a plain turning lathe, which means a modular system, and it seemed an ideal base to build...

pretty excited to be getting to the point I'll soon be making belts for my little Lorch tool room lathe restoration! Must not be too many more bits to buy!

don't know how well I explained that. the drilling jig was a piece of hard die steel with the three holes in. just drilled them by hand and dropped little pins in the two holes as u go. the big one was drilled with a trepanning bit like one of those portable drill units u see now, hollow. a...

we used to make these In the lathe. cut a stack of plates about the right size and make a jig to drill the two holes and the gap (use a unibit maybe for the coin capture hole) fasten them in a stack with two screws with a bit of alloy bar to align them all. set them up between centres and...

that's a big boley vice. ive seen a lot of them, usually the 50mm and 65mm ones, on watchmakers benches. nice score.

that's a A11 Lorch or Lorch Schmidt from Germany. the bench isn't original. lathe is about 1910-1925. I have the next model, about 1930.

hi there. been looking around for a while, thought id join up. I collect sparkplugs, tools and vintage machine tools. at the moment im working on a 1930's Lorch precision lathe, an Australian HYCO Bandsaw, and a few smaller projects. I don't really have a garage, just an inside work room. great...