Hello All, Just moved 3000 klms South and set up my tool room in the house which would be one of the smaller ones shown here at 1.7 m wide by 2.1 m long. My aspirations are now miniature, my machinery will be likewise and the convenience of an in-house workspace suits a rather mature age operative. Hope to add a Sherline mill in the not too distant future despite the worthless Australian dollar.
For those interested in very small machinery/models I can say my 8" lathe,( metric option with C5 bearings and ER16 spindle), has been satisfactory. Today I did a couple of test pieces to check the journey in the boot of the car did not throw things out. I can report that the two tests in a four jaw and dead centre, 13mm dia aluminium and 32mm brass with cuts 75mm long gave acceptable results; aluminium nil discrepancy and the brass less than 0.01mm. I might add that this was done with a HSS roughing tool, (I did stone it), and am sure had I used Louis Ally's lovely micro carbide tools I could have achieved close enough to perfection. Anyone inclined to the very small would do well to consider the Sherlines. Regards, Paul Gough.
