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[user 44888]

Hi there from Lossiemouth Scotland , I do a lot of lathe and milling work also brazing and welding along with a few other things , keeps me out of trouble

 

[duke]

Welcome, I assume wood lathe work but do you have a metal lathe?

 

[user 44888]

Welcome, I assume wood lathe work but do you have a metal lathe?

No sorry I should have said it is metal lathes i use and of course metal milling

 

[duke]

No sorry I should have said it is metal lathes i use and of course metal milling

No problem , I have a South Bend metal lathe made in the USA. Got it on a good deal with alot of tooling. It has become very handy.

 

[Bingy man]

Welcome to ukw .

 

[DeBangis]

Welcome to UKW.

 

[user 44888]

No problem , I have a South Bend metal lathe made in the USA. Got it on a good deal with alot of tooling. It has become very handy.

That helps if you get tooling in with it , some buy a machine and not realise they are going to spend probably more on tooling than they paid for the machine

 

[dickm]

Wonderful to live on the "Nairn Riviera"! According to an old naval friend, Lossiemouth was chosen as a site for an air base as it is fog free more often than other sites in the area.
I'm nearer Aberdeen, and it's pretty dreich here today. Flaming June? Huh!

 

[user 44888]

Wet here the day ,and she was pretty thick with a haar last night but to behonest this area seems to be more sheltered well most of the time that is ,we seem to miss the worst of things

 

[sawtooth-9]

Welcome.
What type of lathe and mill and what do you make.
I have a Colchester Student 1800 metal lathe and a Schaublin 13 mill and do a mixture of wood and mostly stainless steel.

 

[user 44888]

Welcome.
What type of lathe and mill and what do you make.
I have a Colchester Student 1800 metal lathe and a Schaublin 13 mill and do a mixture of wood and mostly stainless steel.

mostly tattoo machines and other tattoo parts and equipment ,electromanetic cores ,armature bars etc,
lathes - warco gear head, a warco wm 240b , it's a belt drive so no chinese drive board or speed controls , i have a small hobby lathe as well that lasted about 30 year before the board went onfire lol i will hook it up the a sewing machine servo set up as it is handy for doing batches of small runs , mills, I have 3 in total , 2 chester conquest mills that I have had for god knows how long ,one with a rotary tabe the other is set up for one drilling job and a warco knee mill that I use for most of the machining of casts and fabricted parts , I don't really do woodwork as such ,it's all steel , ductile iron , brass ,bronze and stainless ,some times ally for fixtures unless someone needs something done

I also like using cutting disks in hand grinders now and again

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[Jester129]

Ouch! That could surely do with some stitches!

 

[user 44888]

The joggers or the leg ? There were a good few ,outside and in

 

[Fred48]

Welcome to the forum @kilmolymock .
I used to live in Burghead in the 50's when my old fella worked as a spark at the navel base/RAF ?
Great times
Fred

 

[user 44888]

Welcome to the forum @kilmolymock .
I used to live in Burghead in the 50's when my old fella worked as a spark at the navel base/RAF ?
Great times
Fred

Aye it was a training base when it opened ,then the navy had HMS Fulmer there then it was handed back to the RAF in the early 70's , a very different place now, I think it's the only operational base left in Scotland now ,i remember standing at the edge of the runway when a Buccaneer crashed ! pilot ejected and the plane went bang

 

[Fred48]

Aye it was a training base when it opened ,then the navy had HMS Fulmer there then it was handed back to the RAF in the early 70's , a very different place now, I think it's the only operational base left in Scotland now ,i remember standing at the edge of the runway when a Buccaneer crashed ! pilot ejected and the plane went bang

Thanks for the update. We used to live on the base then moved to a bungalow on Mr Forsyths farm right opposite the Naval base. We had a great time working on the farm as kids and fishing in the river Lossie at the back of the property. Happy years
Fred

 

[user 44888]

I had an uncle that was in the Navy there ,from what I remember a judge or sheriff signed him up for service! lol