• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    Flies

    Not really a thing over here, that I've ever seen. But I'm not really well travelled. I went camping to a place near a river once and wondered why a few people had nets over their heads and every camping spot had a metal basket for burning logs. Didnt take long to realise why, midges. We lasted...
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    I'm not sure when this was made but the level of skill to make a screw 16th inch is mad. To clean up the very pitted section I tilted it in a vice just so I could taper the bottom off on the surface grinder I had a bit practice of curling which is a finish done on ornamental lathes, its...
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    Royal mail

    My wife has decided to thin her herd of handbags and she has decided that she will use vinted. So with that in mind I was given the task of taking pictures of her bags, uploading, writing the listings, packing the sold bags, taking the bags to the post office. I noticed that you dont dictate...
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    Never before seen a cloud pattern as this, taken at 10 pm.

    On the subject of clouds, can you see the duck:)
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    To get a better finish I stuck the bit in the lathe and used scotchbrite This was very pitted so used my little surface grinder I finally get to use the little spanners 4mm that have been in the drawer for 15years I'm not sure what to do with this, maybe grind then re scribe...
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    I'm not sure my machining abilities would extend to doing a lead screw. :unsure:
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Its been a while since I did a machine and I am enjoying myself, its unknown if anything is missing. If I recall the original listing, the leadscrew is awol. Sam I'm not sure, I've not gone through everything properly, I've just been grabbing a lump from a crate.
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    I loved my spirograph in the 70's. Not sure why you would need the maths to put a pattern on something. I think the piece of work is attached to this and moves around whilst a cutter spins attached to a cross slide.
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Exactly Sam. Who'd of thunked it, that I would be trying to understand the radius of a apocentral circle or the differential angle :unsure: . I managed a B in O level maths but this may as well be astro physics. I found a book which makes it much easier to understand. Like not at all.
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    I got the cutting frame back together. It will need more work before it can be used. Next up is what I think is called a epicycloidal cutting frame. It makes my brain hurt trying to comprehend how it moves
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    The things you see on holiday ……

    I took the passenger seat out and the bed fit snugly into the footwell and I could close the boot with a couple of inches to spare. The lathe was in a scrap yard. Probably my favourite build, its not been used as much as I wanted but I did make some pens a while back
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    The things you see on holiday ……

    Hold my beer;) This is me unloading the bed, outrigger, tailstock, carriage, banjo out of my vw transporter after going to collect it. It was too long for a courier. I did get the headstock delivered by pallet courier. Did it alone with a engine hoist and pump truck. The RU isnt that heavy...
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    The things you see on holiday ……

    Lovely guy is Keith, going through some pretty major health problems. I tried to find a buyer for his lathe but even with a fantastic price the distance put people off. Personally I'd just hire a luton and go and get it.
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    There are a lot more bits to clean up before I attempt to play. Plus I'm very new to ornamental turning. The SOT have some great footage but a lot of it is old being done by camcorder by the looks of it. Wifey was asking what I'd like for our wedding anniversary, SOT have some nice books that...
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Note to self, do not use aldi's masking tape. Supposed to be low tack, easy to remove. It aint, it stuck like a stucky stuck thing and deposited schmoo all over. I had to use acetone to get the adhesive off. I will stick with my yellow frog tape which is silly money but you can leave it for ages...
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    Ornamental lathe restoration

    Its been along time since I got to do any of this, been busy with other stuff. The castings generally have a few voids, obviously you cant have holes in your ways. They are filled with a metal that is softer than the cast iron. I dont know the date of this but probably 19thC. Wadkin were still...
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    classic machines

    Its a Holroyd tool grinder, 3grinding wheels and a stropping wheel, with a grinding cone for carving chisels. Wadkin had them in their catalogues until they did their own version, which was the exact same top but bolted to a thin gauge box. Mine has an attachment for doing planer blades. Cost...
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    Surprised it took so long....

    I reckon Sir 9fingers would of had this thread nipped in the bud some time ago:)
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    Surprised it took so long....

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    Surprised it took so long....

    When lady penelope's chauffeur gets knighted for his public service you know the system is broken. I played a tiny part in getting simon weston his honor.
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