I have an old lathe which I want to get into good working condition to use for clockmaking and other projects.
The lathe was bought for £50 a number of years ago from someone near Bingley who had bought it for her husband. Her husband was really after a woodworking lathe so it was never used and just sat in a garage.
This is a treadle lathe which was made by C. Lindley and Co Ltd according to the name plate.
The tailstock has an MT1 morse taper and is fitted with a drill chuck. I have bought an MT1 dead centre from ebay.
The mandrel is hollow and is fitted with a 3 jaw chuck on a 11/4" square screwthread and has an MT3 taper.
There is a backgear which is attached to the headstock by 3/8" BSW hexaganol setscrews. Two of the set screws are missing which previously attached the motor to the lathe, so I am ordering some more from CCS fasteners as they have a good range of whitworth fasteners at reasonable prices. I have been making measurements of the lathe so that I can get the correct parts, details of the whitworth screwthreads from oldengine.org helped interpret the measurements of screwthreads and wikipedia helped with the morse tapers as I could not find my engineering tables. I need to get another set of engineering tables and will put in an order for the Zeus tables when I place an order for other parts.
The lathe has a leadscrew of 8TPI. The cross and topslide each have a screwthread of 8TPI but no graduated index dial, I intend to provide a digital readout using digital calipers. I thought this was a stroke of genius on my part but as soon as I looked for details of the calipers on the web I discovered that lots of people are already doing this. See my digital readout page for details of of what I have found out and what I am doing.