Identify a Tyme lathe please

[rogerj]

This lathe has fallowed me around since the late 80s and I've rescued it from a dark corner of the workshop. I never got into wood turning although I once made a new handle for a small frying pan. I've searched the internet images for one like it but nothing fits. You can see that it has a single round bar as a "bed" unlike all the other Tyme lathes I see which have two square bars. There is 10" clearance over the center to the bar and 30" between centers. The labels on the headstock and the motor have faded to illegibility. It was bought from a tool shop in Southampton long since gone...Any help appreciated. Roger.
In the photo a small faceplate which has been drilled to take the 3 jaw chuck. edit..and the base frame was not part of the original..I made it.

 

[Rhossydd]

It looks like a Tyme SL750 http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/althea/image ... 50Spec.jpg

 

[dickm]

Search the forum on that Tyme number - pretty sure I posted some publicity material from Woodworker referring to just that one. Don't think they ever sold many and they were rapidly replaced with the twin bed Avon and Cub models.

 

[rogerj]

It looks like a Tyme SL750 http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/althea/image ... 50Spec.jpg

Thank you for that info....that is certainly the one. Now off to sales and wants to try and sell it..
@dickm could not find that on the forum. In fact they seem so rare there's not anything much on the whole net.
Roger

 

[rogerj]

Seems I need to have made more posts so it won't appear on sales and wants after all.
However I will go instead to General Woodworking for some advice on a Dewalt 720.
Roger