Since looking for my first lathe back when I purchased a unimat 3, I always wanted a cowells but funds didn’t allow. I’ve finally managed to pick one up at a great price and I’m more than pleased with it. Rigid, well made and a true precision machine; I hope this will be with me [...]
21 Oct, 2012
Posted by: Raynerd In: The Workshop & Tools
It seems that as these machines are getting harder to find, they are often in need of repair! This post hopes to give details on the Kennedy Saw. If you have any info or pictures of the saw please email me! I don`t often post with none project related information but since I get an [...]
When I first saw one of these running I really liked it. Being in a basement workshop, I`m limited with the size of the equipment I can have down there, especially floor standing. This is an ideal size, OK, limited certainly to the size I can cut but it`ll certainly give my arm a rest [...]
Just a quick update. Sadly I`ve no detailed photos of the saddle before I stripped it down but hopefully you can appreciate how dirty it was with 50 years and no clean I expect! Parts in a bucket after just being cleaned in paraffin. Rebuilt – just to check I could remember!! And stripped again [...]
After 6 months now using the Boxford, I`ve decided along with advice of friends and other model engineers that I`m going to stick with this lathe and for the reason I`m investing the next few weeks in refurbishing it to a former glory. I`ve not much money to spend on it but all it should [...]
This is the first run of my Boxford 8″ Shaper that I have been trying to restore. I have converted the motor from the original 3ph to a single phase supply, re-made the drive pully which had chipped and finally cleaned and oiled as well as getting over some other mini hurdles! I got this [...]
I use to own a Unimat 3 mini lathe many years ago and I really enjoyed it for small work. Looking back now, since owning my Asian Lathe and Boxford it was tiny in comparison but there was somthing about its size that has appealed to me. I`ve been looking since summer to find a [...]
Some manditory pictures of the workshop where all the action happens:
At the moment the machines and equipment I will be using are the Clarke cl300m lathe, a Boxford Model A lathe, a Chester Conquest mill and Vertex 4″ Rotary table. I will have to purchase a dividing attachment shortly (they are currently out of stock everywhere!) but I`ll be able to cut most of my [...]
I`ve been busy recently moving my shop down into our cellar. It is an old coal bunker that has been converted to a storage space and then I`ve put up some shelves and work surfaces, decent lighting, high security alarm and made it a nice little work space. It is amazing how much I`ve been [...]