Sold: Price was 552 pounds in total.(if my Maths is right) That seems pretty good assuming there isn't much wrong with it. Does the £552 include the premium etc?. Also, I suppose, depends on how much kit there was with it in the way of chucks, faceplate, steadies, apart from the one chuck shown in ...

Just to be absolutely certain , before I start cutting gears for a metric/imperial translation set, for my 280 Synchro, c 1980, are these gears 16DP, 20PA? That's what I understood them to be, but they seem to mesh very well with some 16DP gears off my Raglan Little John, which are known to be 14.5P...

Thanks for the reply! I think i might have to get in and have a look at the gear box. must be something wrong in there as it doesn't seem to work on some settings. I think i'll go and annoy my mate (again!) about what i should be using on it etc. Before you try taking off the chuck, I think there i...

Hi I'd try reconnecting the belt with it 'off' the top pulley, therefore slack, then feed it over the edge of the pulley with one hand while pulling the chuck round with the other. This should wind the belt back onto the pulley. Failing that, you will have to slacken the adjusters. There are some Vi...

Sold !, for a total price of £710.70 (if I got my sums right). and if you want a good laugh, its now on Ebay asking £1600.00 using the same picture as the auction Ad, and with a description mentioning buying a commercial property.(?) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Viceroy-280-vs-Centre-Lathe-3-phaze-/18...

Mine is similar. I wondered about it then decided it wasn't worth worrying about. You'll rarely want to use top speed and then not for long because of the noise. That's what I suspected. I'm still curious to know why the machines as built differed so much in respect of speeds to that which Denford ...

Out of curiousity, I checked the speed ranges on my Synchro (the one with the 12 speeds controlled by a lever on the headstock, not the electric control version). Lowest I can get is 70rpm, highest is 1550, by fiddling with the settings of the variable speed pulleys. Closest I can get otherwise in o...

LesT wrote:I see someone is breaking a Viceroy on Ebay, might help someone who is stuck for a particular part.

Is there? I looked under 'Denford' and 'Denford Lathe' but couldn't find anything except someone breaking an Orac.

Richard

According to the manual I have, I should grease the headstock bearings every 6 months, and the diagram points to greasers for the front spindle bearings and the layshaft bearings. I have found these greasers. There is no mention of a greaser for the rear spindle bearing, and anyway I can't find a gr...

Taylon wrote:Hello to you all,

Still looking to acquire these compound idler gears. Anyone able to make or supply these gears? Willing to pay!!

Kindest regards, John R.

Have you tried John Ward at Latheparts? I'm sure he'd do them and his charges are pretty reasonable.

Richard

Hi I read somewhere that someone else had tried to match the Denford blue. As I recall, they couldn't match the hammerite. I have another lathe and had the local paint shop mix a match in enamel paint. It was perfect but it wasn't hammerite. Mine isn't hammerite, its ordinary light blue. A previous...

I've got a metric 280 Synchro, but need some additional parts in order to cut accurate imperial threads with it. I could make most of it, but if I could find the quadrant and the 127/135T translation gear at least, it would be a good start. Anybody got these gathering dust?

Richard

Does anyone know the BS number, or paint manufacturers name for the light blue used on a Denford Synchro c 1980? The paint on mine is in pretty good condition generally, and I've decide to leave 'as is' now its cleaned up, but the splashback has been repainted (badly) in hammerite blue, and its anno...

The drawing is BVS100-105, as attached. Thanks, that's really useful. At least if I do mash a gear, I've got the drawing now to make a new one! The mod seems to have been done in late 1978, so if I'm right about the build date of mine being 1979/80, then its already got the modified gears in it. Re...

Yes the belt runs in oil, I use ISO32 hydraulic oil. You'll notice there's a thin toothed wheel in there too which seems to do nothing. On your lathe it does in fact do nothing - it's a trigger wheel for the speed readout on the electric-speed-control model. Take care when changing the high-low spe...

Having recently bought a 280 Synchro, c1980, the model with the manual speed change lever. I thought I'd better take the top off the headstock and make sure everything was OK inside. Its spotlessly clean, the oil is so clear I can see the bottom of the casting through it, and the gears are all in go...