I'm glad you solved your parting off problem, but am mildly curious regarding the lathe itself. It has a different arrangement for fixing the topslide to any Denford I've seen, and seems to have the half nut lever on the left of the apron, and also has a tee slot in the front wing of the saddle. Is...

Hi Pete and rpwilson It would seem I have not explained the problem correctly and im getting my cross slide and top slide confused. I'm no engineer or machinist but a builder who like to make stuff Pete you are right the cross slide has took a beating at some point before i got the lathe. rpwilson "...

Hi Guys Iv all ways had problems with parting off watched lots of videos on YouTube tried different ways of sharping parting tool blade all with no luck lots of juddering I had tried all sorts slow the speed down speed it up raise tool up set it low etc ect :ReallyMad: But now think iv found the pro...

Viceroy gear now at there new home thanks :D Sold I got some gears for my lathe thought there might be 1 or 2 I didn't have but alas no so will sell them on for what they cost me £50 plus postage http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g130/ph0t0h0me/2c94088a-596a-4bd6-bc9d-7b3274ec9567_zpsqtxiloat.jpg I ...

Hi, Ignore what I said about drilling holes etc !, I didn't notice that you said the shaft was free in the castings. I think you may have to remove the castings from their attachment under the lathe bed. The shaft may be shouldered, with circlips to locate the bearings onto the shaft or pulley. Les...

Les Have been looking at that drawing again and if the shaft is a similar design to that it wont just push out will have to unbolt the cast arms to remove it

Thanks for that LesT I found the drawing you mentioned but as you can see from photo mines a bit different. I have undone the two grub screws the shaft moves in the cast mountings but wont come through the pulley ???? I made a jacking screw and just put a dent in the side of the cabinet I cant see a...

OK so got the new motor in and VFD mounted its just changed the lathe running so smooth the cuts are better and i seem to be getting less chatter. After fitting motor had a bearing noise had suspected it had one but the motor that was on it was so noisy, any way its the bearings in the mid pulley [t...

re this post http://www.denfordata.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=4694 Finally had the money to buy this set up :D will be installing it over the Christmas break. A three phase 1hp .75kw motor and an Invertek IP20 1.5kW 1 phase in, 3 phase out ODE-2-12150-1KB12 VFD Just set it up on bench to test it out

Hi John R

No no luck its not on the list of priorities at the moment.

As for getting some made could be a plan just depends on cost when I approached a local engineering company they wanted £200 per gear I can live with out it at that price

Thanks
Steve

I see some change gears sold on ebay did anybody on here buy them ?
If you did would you be willing to sell me one of the compound gears the 66 / 18

Thanks

Steve

Hi Guys Have the collected wisdom got any thoughts on Inverter / Variable Frequency drive unit ? are they any good ? the more you pay will they be better ? Have been looking on Fleabay and found these ones http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VARIABLE-FREQUENCY-DRIVE-INVERTER-VFD-2HP-1-5KW-7A-m-/260624527277?p...

I email the guy for more photos and yes its a milling attachment. Which looks like a separate motor drive to convert if running 230v
I ask about the fault and the reply is "In terms of not working I understand its the electronics card."

Thanks Les :D motor mounting2.pdf Hi Steve, Drawing scanned as requested. I was making some Nylon pegs for a Coal Bunker door recently and I had a lot of trouble getting a good finish. In the end I tried a HSS parting tool ground to an extreme rake, like a miniature plane. It produced a great finish...

Hi, I found a couple of A3 drawings which show the mounting plate arrangement. I hope they help you, one is from the wood lathe arrangements,but the part numbers appear to be common i.e. "SP***", possibly standard part ? I only have an A4 scanner so I have scanned the relevant bits. By the way, it ...

Thanks Andy it show imperial. Well the never ending quest for gears goes on, went to a local engineers with blue prints they wanted £200 per gear for 1 offs :delirious: :dumbfounded: Have now purchased a set not complete but now have 20 x2 24 26 28 32 x2 40 44 48 56 100 and i have compound gear (18T...

Hi Pete

Sent you a personal message

Thanks for that Andy

I have a compound gear (18T / 72T) and an 80T idler gear. but I have found this document (not the clearest copy) that would lead me to believe that's for metric gearing ????

Theres a downloadable Denford lathe parts list on this site which seems to cover the TDS1, and lists changewheels. Imperial and metric lathes are different, which is yours? Did you try John Ward? Richard Hi Richard Dont really know if it metric or imperial the cross slide and compound have an imper...

Hi Guys Change gears how many folks are missing them all or some ? Iv looked through the forum and maybe im just thick but cant seem to find a definitive list of what should be with the lathe (TDS1) so who has a full set would you list it please? pictures would be even better If enough folks are int...