Geoff289
Well-known member
Nice work as usual Dan. Looks like we're all on the same page about keeping stuff. I also have Scottish heritage.
The casting on these old things was not brilliant but I have to say the build quality in regards to engineering is way over engineered IMHO. The thing weighs a tonne...so to speak.


Hey that bench grinder came up a treat. I have wanted to get my own too for a few years now, might need to pull my finger out. I have been relying on the one at work, which is fine, but waiting on weekends is a pain.
I was gonna get one from Hare and Forbes, i think i was around $500 with a belt sanding attachment, but maybe i need to look on gum tree or Facebook marketplace now!
Rudi.
It appears as though we have lost quite a few posts in this thread which is disappointing!
Ill try and get them back up when I get a chance, not that it matters too much I suppose.

Hey mate, there was some kind of forum glitch and they had to revert to an earlier saved back up, and a few days of posts were lost in the process. I lost some posts and responses too. Frustrating, but after grumbling about it to myself, I realised if that's the worst thing that happens to me this week, life aint that bad![]()
The lathes have come up a treat. There's just something special about working with vintage iron.
The soft start of the VFD is a bonus.
I e-mailed a bunch the other day to your bigpond address - they would show up as Google drive links as there was 70 Mb or so. Maybe bigpond has considered them spam?
Soooo, have you got that new shaper sorted and tarted up yet? Just askin’...

new year break and big intentions of cleaning up some of the property but my ambitions and capabilities on these steep slopes around here got a little confused. So I ended up using the machine somewhere else, which ill get to in a minute.