Another C60L Restoration

[Mike K]

Tony

This link may be of assistance to you re: searching for equipment for your vehicle

http://www.lathes.co.uk/australian/

Mike

[Tony Mathers]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Tony

This link may be of assistance to you re: searching for equipment for your vehicle

http://www.lathes.co.uk/australian/

Mike

Yes I went there last night looking for the Macson, very disappointed to not find it... I was hoping they did smaller models.

[Mike Cecil]

Well, you learn something new everyday. I stand corrected.

An F1 'mount' it is.

Mike

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Tony Mathers

Yes I went there last night looking for the Macson, very disappointed to not find it... I was hoping they did smaller models.

Tony

The services here did also use QUALOS and MARS and a few other Aust. brands as well during WW2 . I have a New Visby lathe - these were built by Purcell in Sydney during wartime for essential work. Its a pretty rough machine in some respects , the casting looks like a contemporary Asian made low end of the market item ( rough ) but that sort of thing didnt matter during the war .

[Tony Mathers]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Tony

The services here did also use QUALOS and MARS and a few other Aust. brands as well during WW2 . I have a New Visby lathe - these were built by Purcell in Sydney during wartime for essential work. Its a pretty rough machine in some respects , the casting looks like a contemporary Asian made low end of the market item ( rough ) but that sort of thing didnt matter during the war .

Would they have used older English lathes? such as this:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/301187357...84.m1436.l2649

Its the right price and very close to home.

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Tony Mathers

Would they have used older English lathes? such as this:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/301187357...84.m1436.l2649

Its the right price and very close to home.

Tony

Thats a odd ball machine not suited to your needs .

The 2nd hand market is flooded with old lathes at the moment , mainly because over the past 20 years or so, many many small engineering businesses , and some large ones too ( like QANTAS workshops ) , have closed down. If you are patient, the right machine will come along ,I am sure . Also, many of the guys who bought lathes as a hobby in the 1950's and 60's or earlier, are falling off the perch, the family usually has nil interest , so they sell .

This forum is a great place to learn about it all.

http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/

Jacques, who frequents this MLU and the above forums , is restoring a F15A. He Owns a old Qualos lathe in very good shape .

[Mike K]

A few adverts . The Macson ad is pre war but thats the sort of machine for you

BTW quite a few older lathes have Govt. munitions factory badges on them, the numbers of lathes used in these factories must have been high . Mike

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Tony Mathers

Would they have used older English lathes? such as this:

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If you study those pics I posted , everything in those machinery bodies seems to be nice and new , the machinery isn't old and dirty . I'd say the Govt. ordered and purchased brand new locally made equipment for those machinery bodies at the time.

Some new machinery was imported during the war, but we were mostly self reliant . Reading the GMH WAR RECORD is an eye opener , tooling was in critically short supply and GMH was dragging old lathes out of rubbish tips and re conditioning them .