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peter scott
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Jim.Walker
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I remember, Peter, when I was very young at the latter end of the war, watching my Dad turning piston rings from a grey cast-iron pipe off the scrap heap. Using an ancient line-driven lathe.
The car gave years of service after that on private hire until sold.
I've never tried to replicate it and doubt whether I could. And certainly not with the equipment he had available.
Jim.
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peter scott
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Proper engineering Jim! Great stuff. Do you still have his lathe?
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Jim.Walker
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| peter scott wrote: | Proper engineering Jim! Great stuff. Do you still have his lathe?
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No Peter, but it may give you some idea of the age when I tell you that the lathe was gratefully collected by Sheffield Industrial Museum when the premises were demolished in 1982. They also took a pillar drill with a 4ft (approx) side flywheel with a handle on the priphery to wind it and a similar horizontal flywheel on the top. That may be where my early teenage muscles came from!
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peter scott
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Hi Jim,
Not quite in the same league, but I have a little bench drill that belonged to my father. It has a crank handle on the side and a flywheel on the top and feeds automatically. Quite clever.
I guess your's was a much bigger version of the one in this photo:
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Jim.Walker
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Rather bigger Peter. Floorstanding, about 7ft high and would take drill bits over 1 inch diameter. The cast flywheel and winding wheel were rather beautiful, having "S" shaped spokes which suggested action.
We did also have a small bench pillar drill driven by the line-shaft, but we did not use that much.
The lathe was also driven by the line-shaft (along with grind-stones and buffing wheels etc.), but I think it may have originated as a treadle machine.
Jim.
PS useful looking workshop you have there, with many signs of home adaptation.
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Jim.Walker
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Must have seen it and forgotten. Visited Brooklands on the way back from the Romahome IOW Rally late last year.
Oh, the advantages of old age! 
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