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  1. #1
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    Default Drummond 'geared flywheel' lathe approx 1912

    Idle browsing on a gloomy Saturday afternoon at home....

    https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/mona...yle/1247529790
    Photos look as old as the lathe, but it looks quite unusual... more unusual the more I look.
    Really unusual in fact, never seen anything like it: a two storey dovetail bed.
    Somehow has a treadle-style flywheel, but the lathe looks too big for that.
    Then read the description - "old style lathe.... Drummond".
    Off to lathes.co.uk: Drummond 5-inch Lathe Photo Essay Page 1 and Drummond 5-inch Lathe Photo Essay Page 1

    Amazingly it is not too far from me, but having a bad case of lathe virus I really need to take self isolation seriously.

    Bill

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    Not a bad idea, gives you a gap without most of the rigidity you lose from having one. the compound slide with only one bolt is pretty hokey though.

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