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I shall be very interested in how your rebuild goes, especially how you use the treadmill motor

I will be very interested to follow your rebuild, especially the use of the treadmill motor. I am reading its data plate correctly that it thunders round at 4800 rpm. I don't have any stepped pulleys with mine just a twin v belt pulley, so any speed adjustment will need to be done off the lathe...

Converted from leather round belts like treadle sewing machines use.

A very similar machine and about the same size and it too has the 'outward mounted thrust bearing' of the period. You must keep me and the others informed of your progress and the success of using the treadmill motor. Pictures and write up please, pictures and write up.

George Hodgson was a large maker of spinning machines and weaving looms winning gold medals for their designs. My guess is, this lathe was made in house for their own use, which is why nobody has ever heard of it and I seem to have the only known example, but I am sure they copied a design they...

The bearings are gun metal rather than roller, this is a close up of the headstock. It also has two arms which face rearwards to mount a some sort of support for the spindle for back pressure when cutting, but the original was missing and all I got was a rusty piece of 3/8 plate across it. It...

No it was a little flat bed like this one, a 1906 model It has a tailstock, its just not in the picture.

As best I can tell at this moment the spindle nose is in 1,3/8" BSW, not common, but not that rare. I would make my money back by simply scraping the stack of change wheels as they are phosphor bronze and huge. As best I can tell a reasonable Warco starts at about £800. My lump is paid for and I...

My Father had a little Drummond, with the lead screw up the middle of the bed. Nice little machine, but I wasn't allowed to touch it. Once when much swearing could be heard coming from its direction my mum enquired what was wrong, dad couldn't get a tool to cut. Mum took it, looked at it...

Years ago, when my heart ruled my head, I saved this Victorian lathe from the scrap man. It is a unique Hodgson of Cleckheaton, lathes.Co had never heard of it before my example. It is a 6” x 32” over the ways, with gap. Most of the important parts seem Ok, but my lathe knowledge is from school...

Thats interesting! Having found the advert on the web I see its dated 1945. I also note that the pipe vice on mine is around the wrong way, as the square face should be square to the die holder.

I have spent a couple of days restoring this little gadget, which is a hand operated threading machine with vice. It also has provision to fit attachments, an anvil style bick and position where you can bend about 5/16" bar around a two-inch radius. Someone made it some adaptors to take...

I worked in a fabricators where our angle grinders were going all day every day. They were all Metabo, when they died, on average after about three years, we re-built them from bits. When we closed I had four, they are still going and will out last me now I have retired. Goood 2nd Hand should...

It's gone, we dug it out, there were small tubers around the rootball.

I think we have a posative identification, as it isn't toxic or illegal it can stay for awhile.....Thanks Dr Phil.

This specimen has come up the garden, its currently about 5' tall, nice leaf structure, but no real signs of flowers, probably came from commercial bird seed. It’s a nice-looking plant, but I should i.d. it. Thanks........Gareth.

A Denbiegh No 2 floor standing pillar drill, mid twenties and another un-named bench drill that is probably slightly older. Also the ubiquitous B&D orange bodied pistol drill and until I was given a new bandsaw, my old JCB bench bandsaw, still works, but retired.

Thank-you one and all for your thoughts and hints. I must admit I have never heard of a belt and bobbin machine, so I shall give that a great deal of consideration. One question though, are they very robust, it looks slightly plasticky from the photo, how does it measure up in practice?

I am considering getting one of this style of disc/belt sander, for light workshop duties, as I have the potential of some small paying jobs coming up and my palm sander is getting rather elderly. They appear to be a badge engineered product, the one illustrated is a SIP, but the Charnwood...

Seaboot socks and then roll the top over the outside of the wellington - so they say!