iv been looking at vertical slide arrangement for a while myself and found an old design which utilised the existing compound slide on a custom made bracket which bolted directly to the 'spigot' on the cross slide. seems the most solid method to me and allows the work to be held at almost any angle ...

looks very good indeed

how did you make those springs ??

also, how do you disengage the screw feed to use the taper attachment? physically remove the screw/nut?

blimey they are some big pictures ! from what i can see and by going off my metric machine, the left hand lever is indeed the tumbler and will reverse the rotation of both feed shaft and lead screw the top lever engages back gear, anti clock should be top speeds, and clock wise should drop speeds by...

hmm that ELS looks very interesting, was thinking of something along those lines a while back, will have to do some more research i think, oddly sized threads would be very handy for a future project. though i do prefer to keep things mechanical. hmm decisions decisions.

thats cetainly a lot of spare gears!

from memory iv only got a 60 and an 80, so could probably do with all of them, do you have a price in mind?

alternativly, whats this ELS thing you've done to yours to not need the change gears, some sort of CNC conversion?

thanks for that info, think ill make up a set as best i can then space to fit if required. Going to use delrin for the actual bush so as long as its close it will work. thanks for the offer of the top half though.

what change gears do you have?

a bit more help required chaps! have slowly been getting this machine up and running, and am still trying to sort these half nuts done but have come across a possible discrepency between the dimensions on my actual lathe the dimensions on the drawings for the half nuts show the center of threads bei...

ok cheers, iv tried spraying some fluid down there, but didn't think of putting the screws bcak in to force it past, ill give that a go. hopefully it will loosen off eventually, i carefully tried using some wedges to lift the compound, but it only goes 2-3mm then is solid. this lathe is really fight...

hi all well im still trying to get this lathe sorted, have had it running and spun a few bits of metal, repairing bits as i go. unfortunanlty seem to be a bit stuck on the simple task of lifting the compound off of its post. i have removed all 3 of the locking bolts, but it refuses to come off. look...

ah ha thats a bit clearer! thanks very much for that Andy that looks similar to what im after. looks like the design was alterd over the years but the critical dimensions should be the same so i can work out somthing. im thinking of making a pair of arms out of bar then attaching blocks of delrinto ...

Did you check these scans ? yep already been though all of those, the pivot pins (302)are listed and the scan before seems to be another pivot pin but without the threaded end, so not sure where that bit goes lol managed to find the handle and boss with slider grooves a bit further on, but cant fin...

well i decided to take a chance and am now in the possesion of the above lathe :) it was left in an old school workshop and seems to have had a few mishaps whilst it was in use :( unfortunatly its also been robbed of some important parts (presumably when its siblings were sold off many years ago) :(...

thanks for the assistance unfortunatly the few pics i got sent to me didnt show the actual name plate, im fairly sure its a tds 1/1 without gearbox. i thought that might be a chuck on the back, but not 100% sure, i assume a chuck to suit would be easy enough to get hold of?, nothing special to look ...

hi all just registerd as im looking at getting a viceroy lathe and am going to need a bit assistance a freind of a freind has one in the back of a container that im going to look at in the near future, they have sent me a few pics, but could do with some help identifing the model and if its worth pi...