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When I can't find a tool and buy a replacement, I usually go to put the new one away in its 'logical place' and find the old one already there...

Sounds just like computer programming... :)

Neither was the PC... It was one of IBM's big mistakes when they produced the first ones (along with "nobody will ever need more than 640 Kbytes of memory"). There were computers available at the time with actual hardware protection (e.g. CTL) - e.g. code goes there, static data goes there...

Finished it at last ! Only 25 years after I bought the castings from the original Reeves... I'll post a video of it running on air later.

How do I upload images for display in a thread ?

'Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment'

It's the same as any other turning between centres, except you deliberately introduce a difference between the headstock end and the tailstock end by offsetting one end of the workpiece away from the centre-line of the lathe. This results in the two ends turning different diameters, thereby...

I thought I'd posted them already, must have been on another forum. I only have these three of Lady Stephanie from 1999 :- She's currently stripped down for painting, I'll post again when she's finished. Thanks :)

I made a taper-turning attachment for my tailstock for turning between centres :-

It depends... - try emailing the vendor and asking what threads are used for that kit.

Hi folks. I'm just returning to model engineering after a long break (nearly 20 years) spent moving house (twice), sorting out new houses, learning woodturning and spending far too much time playing computer games 😊. I'm a retired computer programmer with a lathe, mill, drill press etc. My...

I've successfully run a Reeves 'Lady Stephanie' (no load) on the boiler from Tubal Cain's 'Hercules' steam-crane, so you don't need that big a boiler as long as you don't want it to do any real work.