The spindle has no play in it and almost no runout with a tenths indicator on it. Opening it up revealed all the gears to be in great shape. Once the machine was sat where I wanted it, I pulled the headstock cover to inspect. I want to bring everyone along for the journey since hopefully you all enjoy this stuff just as much as I do! I plan to rebuild this lathe to better than new, scraping and all. I'll post what I've gone through to date below so these posts don't get too out of hand. Any time I get a new machine tool I tear it down to the bare nuts and bolt, clean out the grime, oil/lube properly and take stock of what needs replacing or fixing. I was happy with what I was finding and what it could take for cuts.Īfter a little fun I started the tear down. Everything seemed to work as it should, ran smooth and without issues. I then pulled it off the trailer, wired on a new plug and ran it through some initial tests.
The thing had a good layer of oil and grime on it so I don't think rusting was even remotely possible. Not wanting it to rust in any spots I wiped everything down and spent a couple hours cleaning it, finishing with a coat of wd40 to drive out any remaining moisture. The wrap job isn't pretty but it held, was interesting trying to seal everything off.īecause of the temperature drop after rain/snow there was a some frost when I unwrapped it. It snowed hard for the first few hours of the drive still hovering around 0 out, the temperature then plunged to a nice -20. I wrapped it to within an inch of its life and was so glad it did. It was a miserable day floating around 0 when loading and snow/rain. Went and picked it up first thing the next morning and was back on the road headed home with the spoils. I left on a Friday after work and made it there that night. It was out near the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border, ~10hrs one way from my place. He told me it previously belonged to a hospital, the older gentleman he bought it from had been the sole operator since the lathe was new and bought it when the hospital wanted to sell.įirst things first was getting it home. The guy I bought it from had owned it for 4 years and had hardly used it. It came with a three jaw chuck, steady rest, follow rest, multifix toolpost, 4 position toolpost and a decent amount of tooling. This one popped up within reasonable driving distance and since I have always liked the roundhead Colchester's decided to pull the trigger. I had been looking for a decently stout lathe in this size for a while and was originally wanting one of the older Standard Modern 12" (or bigger) Utilathes. A few months ago I picked up a 1962 Mk1 Colchester Student Dominion with 13" swing and 24" between centres.
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