3 Dec
2015
3 Dec
'15
5:47 p.m.
Hi Tony
Thats interesting I had thought about a model makers lathe.
I have a pillar drill and the usual set of tools.
I did start out as a mechanical engineer and my
top subjects at school were metalwork and technical drawing.
My metalwork master put me in for those subjects in GCE a
year early ie 15 instead of 16.
I duly passed and come September and the first metalwork
class and I'm already to go.
The teacher pounces on me an asks me where the hell do I think I'm going.
You passed didn't you? Yes says I. So I got excused school one
afternoon a week.
Shucks.. My favorite lessons and I couldn't go!!!
I only changed to electronics for reasons beyond my control.
It looks like a visit to Machine Mart may be coming up.
On 03/12/15 17:32, tony duell wrote:
Hi
Well it certainly works for you Rik.
I dont speak Dutch and its not clear exactly which of the products you
refer to.
The end of hub appears to have been turned on a lathe.
So if you speak Dutch and have a nice big lathe in your shed you can fix
your TU58
Surely you don't need a big lathe. A small lathe, a Unimat,
a Taig/Peatol, etc would be easily big enough to make hubs for the TU58.
I hate to say it, but IMHO if you are restoring a classic computer which needs
significant mechanical work (drive rollers, pulleys, spacers, tapped bushes, etc)
then access to an engineer's lathe (and the ability to use it) is almost essential.
-tony