Hello from North Devon

[Gary]

Hello,
I've just landed here with the fanciful idea of one day making an engine. Currently a novice I have a Raglan Little John mk2 along with a very old admiralty Drummond. The latter is in bits after a house move and likely to be that way for a while. The Raglan is up and running but so far has only made a couple of 9/16" threads (its capable of loads more, I'm not quite there yet).
Gary.

 

[ZebDog]

Hi Gary welcome to the group.

 

[Scott_M]

Welcome !

Scott

 

[Brysherexx]

You re welcome
Loving the forum so far. Nice, knowledgeable people. Hard to come by it seems.

 

[Richard Hed]

Hello,
I've just landed here with the fanciful idea of one day making an engine. Currently a novice I have a Raglan Little John mk2 along with a very old admiralty Drummond. The latter is in bits after a house move and likely to be that way for a while. The Raglan is up and running but so far has only made a couple of 9/16" threads (its capable of loads more, I'm not quite there yet).
Gary.

Do ;you have a photo of that Raglan? I've never heard of one.

 

[Gary]

Do ;you have a photo of that Raglan? I've never heard of one.

Hi Richard, I'll see if I can upload one. They are on the lathes uk website with a lot of useful info too.

 

[awake]

Welcome!

 

[Apprentice707]

Welcome and good luck Gary. I used a Raglan Little John in metalwork lessons at school 60 years ago, great lathe with an expanding/contracting pulley system to infinitely vary the speed if I remember rightly.

B

 

[Gary]

Welcome and good luck Gary. I used a Raglan Little John in metalwork lessons at school 60 years ago, great lathe with an expanding/contracting pulley system to infinitely vary the speed if I remember rightly.

B

Thanks B, you do remember rightly about the pulley system. I also have a variable frequency drive on mine as it has a 3 phase motor, this allows a variety of speeds, soft starting and seems to work well. I do tend to leave it set at 50hz though and make speed adjustment on the original machine workings.

 

[Gary C]

Welcome to the forum Gary. It's a great place.

 

[SmithDoor]

Hello,
I've just landed here with the fanciful idea of one day making an engine. Currently a novice I have a Raglan Little John mk2 along with a very old admiralty Drummond. The latter is in bits after a house move and likely to be that way for a while. The Raglan is up and running but so far has only made a couple of 9/16" threads (its capable of loads more, I'm not quite there yet).
Gary.

Welcome to the group

Dave

 

[Basil]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[GRAYHIL]

Gary
Welcome, I also live in Devon, (Brixham) and exhibit in the model marque tent at Churston steam rally.
Graham

 

[nealeb]

Welcome aboard from another South Devon resident and occasional poster on the forum. Currently building my first loco having been a more-or-less model engineer for around 50 years... Not sure about North Devon but there are a few ME societies down this end of the county - I'm chairman of the Newton Abbot club, and there are also clubs in Exeter and Plymouth.

 

[Gary]

Welcome aboard from another South Devon resident and occasional poster on the forum. Currently building my first loco having been a more-or-less model engineer for around 50 years... Not sure about North Devon but there are a few ME societies down this end of the county - I'm chairman of the Newton Abbot club, and there are also clubs in Exeter and Plymouth.

Hi, I have found a distinct lack of clubs locally. When we moved here I didn't think to see what there was in that regard. I have been building and flying model aircraft since the mid 80's. It was only after moving I found that there are no clubs anywhere near me.