New toy: Setting up Colchester Student lathe

[Web Goblin]

Jonathan,
if you are after some morse taper sleeves I have some if you are interested.

Ian

[fidia]

I found the cheapest BD68 slideways oil on Radionics

http://radionics.rs-online.com/web/s...=bd+68&x=0&y=0

[Jonathan]

Jonathan,
if you are after some morse taper sleeves I have some if you are interested.

Thanks for the offer. I'm sorted now though - went to the ex-company that sold me the lathe to see what tools I could get. He had an amazing amount of stuff. I spent two hours rummaging, could easily have spent more. I got 7 quick change tool holders, 4 Morse taper sleeves, lots of new and a few used milling cutters (maybe 25), coolant hose, 20L bottle of coolant, knurling tool, mitoyo digital calliper, 3 V-blocks, pair of parallels, some carbide inserts, couple of standard carbide lathe cutters and probably some more I've forgotten. All for £200.

He had lots of different oils but I've already got the stuff for the lathe and didn't want to have barrels of the stuff.

[Jonathan]

I've now set up the coolant on the lathe and replaced the old hose thing with the modern flexible hose, so no leaks now, had to make an adapter for it:



Also in that photo is the new 4 jaw self centring chuck I got for a good price via eBay. The run-out 100mm from the chuck is 0.04mm approx. That's generally negligible.