Another Milling machine?

[Florian Eberhard]

No worries there Mike, you didnt. My comment was a little sarcastic.
But in fact swiss and austrian people are quite different.
Greetings Florian 

[Jo]

I am being talked out of this machine before I have even seen it by someone who wants to sell me one of his own machines 

Jo

[Jasonb]

But will he use the money from selling one of his machines to buy that one?

Is it a 102?

[Jo]

Is it a 102?

He has 3 102's  none of which are restored 

However I heard SCO was in the look out for a rather nice Schaublin Lathe. Anyone would think his team won the F1 this year 

Jo

[Jasonb]

I thought you were after one of those too? Pity you don't have anywhere to put it

[Jo]

No a 70 and he has 5 of those to restore 

It will be the replacement for Little C  I already have a bench for it  .


I have yet to see if any of his restoration parts are to a standard I will consider good enough for my machine being that I know where there is a new one with my name on it 

Jo

[sco]

Is it a 102?

He has 3 102's  none of which are restored 

However I heard SCO was in the look out for a rather nice Schaublin Lathe. Anyone would think his team won the F1 this year 

Jo

Have been dreaming of a 102-VM, but that's all it is at the moment.

Simon.

[steamer]

Honestly, I'd wait for a CNC 3 axis at least.

[Mcgyver]

I could still have his immaculate No12 but my Supplier spent too much restoring it 

what does your supplier do to "restore"?  New P2 bearings, regrind of taper and a complete scraping and alignment of all bearing surfaces......or a varsol power wash and paint job?

I've not encountered a machinery dealer who would be able to recondition a machine; but granted that is fairly local knowledge.   When they paint them it hurts the value (imo) as you have no idea how tough a life it had so must assume the worst.  It may be different where you are.

[Jo]

Latest on the Milling machine: I am not the owner of an Acieria F2  Consensus is they are not worth more than £1K these days and actually even at that price it was not worth the hassle of moving it 

I did however acquire more castings  A little Otter, another Stuart Steam Pump and a Sanderson Beam engine   

Jo

[b.lindsey]

Well all is not lost then Jo. You can do more fondling of the castings too. Nice acquisitions

Bill

[Jo]

Thanks Bill 

I also picked up a standard (the A frame casting) for a Stuart 10V if anyone needs one. Yes the one that often gets broken when you try machining it 

Jo

[Jo]

Following a couple of questions about my little Otter I have been trying to find a photo of one but so far no luck  so I have pieced it together for you.

It is a 15cc four stroke Marine engine originally in one of the boat mags and the article was repeated in Model Engineer in 1970 which is where I have acquired my metric drawings from 

Time for a  and a fondle 

Jo

P.S.  The Sanderson castings have come up nicely after last nights fondle 

[Jasonb]

At least that one won't be able to chop your fingers off so you can run it yourself

[Gas_mantle]

Is the Sanderson likely to be your next build Jo ? I'd be interested to see how that goes 

A friend recently offered me a full set of Sanderson castings and drawings at a bargain price. I decided at the time that it was way above my skill level so I declined the offer - A big mistake that was    I should have bit his hand off and kept them till I felt I was able to tackle the build