Recent content by montie

I got this Mitchell lathe a while ago which appears to be quite scarce. It is fairly OK except for the cross slide that has a lot of wear which I need to fix. It used to be powered by a 380V 3phase motor which I had to change to 220V single phase as this is the power available at home.

I think I happened upon this forum for a very, very good reason!! Ithink it is similar to alcoholism, you have to accept and then work around the problem. I grew up "poor" and always longed for this and that, hence the problem of hoarding just escalated. I will post some pics of my present...

Thanks for the welcome, guys! I will take some pics and upload as soon as I figured out how to do that. Regards. Montie.

Hi gents (ladies?), I am a new member to this forum, having seen it on the HMVF where I am a member as well. Hoping to learn alot on this forum as I do have a garage (110 square meters) but it is a mess from al the (s)**** being stored in it. My problem is that I simply cannot let a...