put it this way once the machine is up and running you can make the bits you need to covert the head later if need be.
That's the plan, always been a bit chicken and egg with this hobby but now I have the egg.......

Not sure what your box is like but most are very noisy which is another good reason to dump
Yep it needs to go, just need to decide if I belt drive The AC Motor or do the DC conversion! fancy doing another 2 castings

Well done Ross, I thought you had a pretty good chance of running that motor on 240V, and am glad you stuck with it, but filing the gears to make it fit - WOW. Congratulations. G.
Yeah got there in the end. Saved me a few quid and learned a thing or two, winner. Filing was a ball ache and not the best way as they are quite noisy in use but I figured that they weren't the originals and didn't fit so didn't have much to lose.

Just got the rest of the problems to work through now