Hi Andy,

Sounds like a good solution to refurbish the nameplates. Look forward to seeing the results,

Cheers, John P

Hi JPH You should give yourself a big pat on the back for the work you have done on the old lathe. It looks better than new in most areas and if you could have got new Name plates it would finish it off perfectly. Maybe a local screen printing company can try to reproduce the originals for you (or c...

Hi John, Welcome to the forum from me too, and thanks for passing on a few tales and some experience. What can you tell us about the procedures for setting / checking alignment of saddle to centres, and squareness of cross-slide to spindle, etc? Did you basically rely on the machining to be right, ...

Thanks for the input John. I have a Biax scraper of my own, but not a flaker. The scrapers are hard enough to find but the flakers are hens teeth in the UK. The flaking on my machine was certainly done by hand. Pete. Hi Pete, Yes the Biax was the Electric scraper we eventually started using for the...

Hi John Thanks for the feedback. I has proven to be a superb machine and one in this condition with so many factory accessories is incredibly rare in NZ. I have mostly used it for making tools. If I had done an apprenticeship, it probably would have been tool making. I don't know exactly how old my...

Hi John, and welcome. Thanks for posting, you just answered a question I had been asking myself this week. I just got a 5" Educator which is still faintly showing the half-moon frosting on the tops of the flat ways and I was wondering if that was 'factory' or done later by someone. I don't know the...

Hi Dazz, It is good to see the old T.D.S 1/1 GB lathe has landed in good hands and you have done an excellent job of refurbishing it. I see you have manufactured a number of components on it that look very well made also. I have just joined the forum after being retired for a few years now and silly...

Hi JPH, Looks like you are doing a good job at rebuilding the old TDS6. I have just joined the forum to bring back a few memory's of my apprenticeship at Denford Machine Tools in the mid 60's and low and behold the first post I see is related to theTDS6. During my time with Denfords I built a lot of...