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Thanks Mike, I may bother you for some photos/dimensions if I ever get around to it, for now I shall continue to swear at the blocks until they spur me into action. Cheers Andy

Hi Mike What did you do with the Yandles guide? I am thinking of making my own roller guides for the startrite, I have the tools and loads of bearings but having a guide to plagiarise would be a good start, even if I move the rear roller in the right plane :) Cheers Andy

Thanks guys, my mum is always saying stuff like "I can't go out as I have to get a repeat prescription" etc. As Indiana Jones has failed to get an appointment to see my GP and you have to go in person to pick up repeat prescriptions from the health centre, no postage/email etc. I have set up...

Thanks Mike, I hadn't click the buy button yet so will take a closer look :) Cheers Andy

Thanks guys I've gone for two 1/2" blades. An M42 3TPI for ripping loads of oak I have, and for daily use an 1/2" 3/4 varitooth that can cut thinner stock and I have unused startrite 1/4" and 3/8" 6 TPI blades if I need to do thinner wiggly stuff. I have also decided to buy some roller guides...

Thanks AES :) Which mill was that? I have three now :oops: They seem to breed! Postage may be a bit steep to your neck of the woods! Cheers Andy

Cheers Bob A mate of mine revealed to me that he had a similar condition to me in his twenties but the tumour killed his pituitary so he's been on a cocktail of drugs ever since, I wouldn't have known unless he told me. Apart from sight coming back, I've nearly finished the mammoth workshop...

I have a back to work date, 23rd September. I'm still on some drugs but most of the important pituitary functions have come back, the rest may do later, if not I'll be on a couple of once a day replacement drugs. Far better than going blind! Cheers Andy

They are a lovely mill from what I have been told. Does the vertical head have a quill? I renovated a Tom Senior M1 horizontal mill that came with the vertical "knuckle" head, no quill so you use the knee. It's ok for occasional vertical use.I then found an absolute bargain Tom Senior light...

I bought a Startrite 351E about 16 years ago, and I have just about used up the free blades that came with it, I think it may be time to buy some new ones. I'm a lazy so and so when it comes to changing blades for different uses, so looking at the tuffsaw site, I'm thinking of buying the 3/4...

Hi Mike, I thought I had a flat soled shave, but when I found it I found it to be curved. However I was just browsing through ebay tonight when a flat soled shave came up with the same casting number as the one I have. I have a funny feeling I will find that casting number in most I pick up, it...

From the frozen wastes of the Pennines where tools rust before your eyes! If you get condensation in your workshop like me, I use heavy vertical way oil on my milling machines and lathes, it is like treacle. Very annoying to have to cover up all the hard work post renovation but until I get...

A day of tidying up and a pub lunch however I did get a delivery from turners retreat it came with the correct thread adapter, I lose a bit of between centres distance but I don't see that as a problem, I have no inclination to start kicking out spindles :) The adapter come with a big...

is it one of a set?

Thanks Phil Chisels purchased, I should be turning soon. Interestingly the taper on the Viceroy's tailstock is MT3, I thought it would be MT2 or even MT1 like most wood lathe tooling, no bother, I have sleeve reducers for MT3 to MT2 and MT1. There is no release mechanism when you wind the...

I hoisted the lathe out of the barn and up into the workshop, took longer than expected, typically a mate turned up just as I finished, it is much quicker with two. I had a fleeting attempt at wiring in the old contactor but the denford lathe diagram seems to have a few mistakes or omissions...

The tail vice arrived today from Australia after finally being released by customs. Terry Gordon always answered emails and was as helpful as he could be given that it is largely out of his control when it goes into Parcel Force land. It actually wasn't too bad time wise from a postal...

Thanks Deema, I have the diagram and will get around to wiring it in soon, either the previous owner didn't have the diagram or skill to rewire to single phase or the contactor is FUBAR, we will soon find out :)

Looking at lathes.co.uk, the only clue I have on the weird rest is this excerpt "The options were limited but all models were available with a rack-operated saddle and compound slide rest was to concert the machine to light-duty metal turning." So maybe it is one of them?

I would but it's not my lathe, I just wondered what the thingamabob was :)