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[Yorkie]

Here's the lathe that i went on about a good few weeks ago that i've just picked up along with a few others, what do you think?

Don't have a clue how to use it but thats being sorted with another post

Just need to fix it up a bit, maybe a good sand and respray etc etc

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00417.jpg

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00415.jpg

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00416.jpg

 

[wizer]

Now THATS a lathe. Very Nice. Bit of spit and polish and it'll look like new

 

[Richard Findley]

Hi Yorkie,

Should be a good buy for you! They have a good reputation as sturdy machines (the old ones are often the best!!)

Keep an eye on Sawdust's posts as I think he's just got one similar.

Cheers,

Richard

 

[Bodrighy]

That should keep you occupied for a few years. Can't think of anything that can't be made on that apart from really big stuff. Congratulations.

Pete

 

[Sawdust]

Here's the lathe that i went on about a good few weeks ago that i've just picked up along with a few others, what do you think?

Don't have a clue how to use it but thats being sorted with another post

Just need to fix it up a bit, maybe a good sand and respray etc etc

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00417.jpg

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00415.jpg

http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt17 ... C00416.jpg

Blimey, did you nick it out of my garage! It looks just like this one:

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... hp?t=30174

Cheers
Mike

 

[Yorkie]

Basically, i got hold of the following for £1200

Jubilee lathe
Minimax U31 combination machine - planer/thicknesser, spindle, rip saw
Multico mortice
pillar drill
Dewalt radial arm saw
multico band saw

They are all single phase and have them stored until i get the power to the double garage sorted. in the meantime i'll be stripping them all down and cleaning them up to some sort of former glory...think they deserve it

Saw your pic of your lathe. Yeah, very similar. But I dont have the blue 'cap', mine has some sort of disk (you can tell i've never used a lathe before cant you)

Really cannot wait to fire them up

 

[Bodrighy]

The 'disc' is a face plate. You screw wood onto it for bowl making. The spindle through the pulleys goes right through and you turn smaller bowls and spindle work (like the piece on it in the picture) over the bed and larger bowls over the end. The blue cap on the other one is a protector I think.

Pete

 

[Yorkie]

thought it may be something like that. it came with 2 metal 'plates'.

any ideas if i'll be able to get some sort of instructions to help me along when i'm taking it apart etc?

 

[Bodrighy]

Try Tony Griffiths here. He often has manuals etc for different lathes. Also has some info on your lathe on site

Hope this helps

Pete

 

[loz]

Does that plate say .75 horse power ?

I thought it would be 2 HP an old Graduate ?

 

[Jenx]

Isn't it a JUBILEE rather than a GRADUATE ?

Lovely thing to have Yorkie .. thats going to be a lot of fun !

 

[loz]

Isn't it a JUBILEE rather than a GRADUATE ?

Lovely thing to have Yorkie .. thats going to be a lot of fun !

oh erm yes.

But still - the size of that motor ? and its only 3/4hp ?

 

[Turn It In]

Good morning fellas,
Thats a good sound lathe and an excellent motor for driving it that will out last most of us. If it needs new bearings in the motor it would be very cost effective and will give every ounce of power stated on the plate and run 24-7 which is far more than any of the cheaper motors readily available on the high street.
A friend of mine and I renovated two of these Jubilees and fitted new bearings in the head stock for about £56 the pair and they now run smooth and quiet.
Regards,
Ian

 

[Yorkie]

Hi Ian,

i'd be very interested in finding out a bit more on changing the bearings, but i'd have to find out if they needed doing first and what the consequences are by not changing them just yet. However, guess there wouldn't be any point not changing them if i wanted it back to its former glory.

Yup, the plate does indeed say .75 hp. I thought it sounded a little under powered but I don't have a clue about lathes......yet :wink:

I'll deffinately be checking out that website in detail. I'd like to find out the correct colour etc for when i start to strip and rebuild....the lathe not me before anyone gets in there haha

Will keep you all up to date with how i get on

Yorkie

 

[Yorkie]

and the on/off switch needs some attention too, doesn't always start first time

 

[loz]

H

Yup, the plate does indeed say .75 hp. I thought it sounded a little under powered but I don't have a clue about lathes......yet :wink:

Ah Yorkie, Im not knocking it, and don't mean underpowered ( mine is 1/3rd HP ) Im sure 3/4HP can handle almost anything !

Just that motor looks massive !

 

[Jenx]

Its big, cause its .. as we say 'clyde built'. :wink:
Its a 'Brook', which is from the days even before Brook Crompton, so its old.. and as such, will have been build to last, built of a 'substiantiality' way above and beyond what would be really required,
because in those days.. thats how everything was.

Built when the british still knew how to manufacture something properly... 'over-engineered' it may be, but it could be expected to be still sitting happily humming away after 40 years or more.

Built in a time where Quality and Longevity were king..

That isn't what happens now :wink:

That be why she 'looks' too big for the lathe... because its built 'properly', by several men in brown coats, with pencils behind their lugs,
and a vernier in their top pockets.

You could take it off.. tow it behind your car for 20 miles, refit it, and it'd take up exactly where it left off beforehand.

Pity those days have gone. :wink:
8)


This may help with the history a little, if you're interested !
http://www.brookcrompton.com/pages/history.htm

 

[lurker]

Hum "land of hope & glory " whilst reading Jenx's post :lol:

 

[loz]

Interesting read Jenx - Thanks.

ps - My mother used to work for "Hawker Siddeley" in Bolton, something to do with circuit boards for missiles ?

 

[Jenx]

Hum "land of hope & glory " whilst reading Jenx's post :lol:

.... brilliant ! its true though, eh ? :wink:

Interesting read Jenx - Thanks.

ps - My mother used to work for "Hawker Siddeley" in Bolton, something to do with circuit boards for missiles ?

She could tell us, but then she'd have to kill us ? :wink: