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Mine doesn't have one either. But if you really want something to stop head/table slipping, a Jubilee clip would probably serve.

Not convinced it's brown oak, but if it is, it's superb timber to work with. Picked up a few logs off the farm woodpile decades ago, without realising how nice it was, and was beaten to the rest by the fireplace.

Which bit of sunny Salop are you in? I was born and brought up round Ludlow, but left in 1961 and never really went back apart from visits to then surviving family. Now 450 miles further north, so get back even less often. But it is/was a lovely area.

I thought ironmongers like that had gone extinct 20 years ago. Peter Crisps in Rushden was wonderful, but they disappeared around the millenium. An excellent find. OP.

Don't be too hard on DECENT single bar machines. I learned to turn 45 years ago on a secondhand Gamages version of the original Coronet Minor, and it did everything from tiny lidded containers to an 18" wheel for a Hebridean spinning wheel. Last heard of it had gone to Tools for Self-reliance...

Ash? Good for making tool handles.

From memory, the motor on those is foot mounted. If you want a 1hp 240v 3p motor I've got the one off my 352, been sitting under the shelf for years, but works fine with an inverter off 240v. PM me if interested (it will be cheap!) Sorry, no idea why this has repeated, but cant seem to find a...

Metal scrapers. For scraping the surface of white metal bearings, scraping off high spots on what is supposed to be a flat surface or, if you are a total masochist, scraping the bed of that bargain metalworking lathe you bought in a flush of enthusiasm where the saddle either wobbles or jams...

Thank heavens. I feel nearly cleansed!

Warning to you all. There comes a stage in life when you know that there are tools, materials, fittings, bicycles, garden machinery or whatever sitting around your workshop or house that you don't have enough years left to use, but the wrench of thinning them out is REALLY painful. I'm...

Only used a small amount, but it was quite easy to work and nicely coloured. You will need to take care drying it, as from memory, it splits pretty horrendously if you don't take it really slowly.

My second-hand 352 has been regularly abused, asked to cut to the absolute limit of its capacity and will still be going strong long after I'm gone. Make sure you use the right blade for the right job and don't try to use a blunt blade for anything (do as I say, not as I do.....). Whether £400...

Wondered about that. Wonder what shape were the grooves on the multi-speed pulley. Seem to remember that Mrs M's treadle sewing machine had rounded, rather than V-shaped grooves on the drive pulley, but that was 55 years ago!

Just watched the video of that little Drummond and was surprised to see it used a V-belt drive. Would have expected flat belt that early in the century. Did wonder if it was a conversion, but there probably wasn't room for a triple flat-belt in the headstock.

Dunno what you youngsters are claiming about the 7 series Volvos; the last REAL Volvo was the 120 estate! Ask any older antique dealer....

Not seen that little beauty before. Amazing the variety of excellent machines Drummond made. When you think that Myford, who swallowed them up, really only made two basic models in half a century. Glad you have the tailstock; that WOULD have been a fabrication nightmare!

Love that tale! Guess your dad's machine was the round-bed version. My Drummond was a hardly used flat-bed which I spotted in the conservatory of the house next to the one from which we were buying a car for Mrs M. and it was certainly more accurate than the beat up ML7 with which I foolishly...

Repeat earlier comment. Has everyone on here got such a good lathe that they don't need to snap up this beauty?

That comfortably pre-dates by a long margin the flat bed Drummond I once had, but it looks as if it will be a real beauty, with decent capacity, once you've cleaned it up. There's nothing very complicated about them; take lots of pics, soak everything in proprietary easing fluid, or diesel if...

Finally managed to find the advertisement for James Inns. The pic is a rather bad copy from Practical Woodworking in 1970. There was something similar in Woodworker for 1978, but there's nothing later in my sources. The advert above the one for James Inns shows another manufacturer's...