Photos of members' lathes and other favourites....

[Alan Douglas]

Other than lathes:

A Hardinge UM (Universal Mill) with the optional Bridgeport vertical head (unfortunately no quill feed so I have another mill-drill for that).

The problem with Pictures Nick is that various pieces of Machinery are often buried

That's approaching a machine collection, which would be all too tempting so I don't go looking around for them.

I like the small turret lathe. Something like that, I would probably set up to manufacture a particular binding-post nut or something, saturate the market, but never want to tear down and re-configure.

[G4XWD Jim]

   
Here's a picture of my Myford ML7 which I bought in 1964 and have used many times but gradually over the years I have used it less and less. I sold it in the summer of 2017 prior to moving house and downsizing. Photo taken in 2017.

I'm starting to look for a small one that takes up no more than about 2 - 3 sq ft of bench space but have been put off a little by Col's (retired) comment about some little ones doing no more than scratching instead of cutting.

I only have some very small projects in mind, bearings and bushes for the dial mech. of a valved comms. receiver. I sometimes use my bench drill with a hand tool sideways to make small stuff like spacers but accurate bearings are a bit difficult that way.

Jim

[Andy M0FYA]

My main workshop machine tools are a Myford ML7 lathe and a Warco WM-16 mill.
The ML7 was built in 1956, but had the proverbial 'one careful owner', the late father of a chap I worked with, who used it for gunsmithing work.
The Warco mill I bought new and have been very pleased with it, mainly for accurate chassis drilling or milling Tufnol and Paxolin. It puts lovely smooth straight edges on Paxolin sheet to create tagboards.

Andy

[Sparks]

Unimat SL purchased 2nd hand in 1973 fro £69!    Plus two small marine cargo winches made on it.
Bob

[peter scott]

Mine is an ancient Exe lathe that I inherited from my father when he died in 1975. As you can see, I'm very tidy worker.

   

Peter