Hi everybody, my name is Hans Jürgen and I am from Germany. Since 40 years I own a Denford Viceroy 280 lathe in metric version and long bed ( 1 meter between centers ), which I bought brand-new from a local dealer. It is the version MVS , manual variable speed with hand wheel control. It is most com...

Hi Richard, thank you very much for the quick response and the interesting informations. I have already reviewed all articles and documents as published in this forum, and a lot of them were quite interesting and I have downloaded a lot. However, unfortunately the missing drawings for my lathe ( dow...

Hi Guys and fans of the vintage Viceroy 280 VS lathe. I am new in this forum and a model engineer since many years. I am from Germany. In 1984, I purchased a brand new metric Viceroy 280 Manual VS Lathe from a big tooling shop, the version with the down-drive block mounted in the cabinet and speed c...

Hi Guys and fans of the old Viceroy 280 VS Lathe. As a model engineer, in 1984 I bought a brand-new Viceroy 280 VS Lathe, with the down-drive block mounted in the cabinet and manual variable speed control by hand-wheel and long bed. Metric Version, with long bed length of 1 meter between centers. I ...