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11th Aug 2020, 09:02 PM #1Golden Member
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dore westbury boring and facing head
I recently had the good fortune to find some relics from the past, including a Stuart 10H casting kit, a Potts milling spindle and a dore westbury boring and facing head kit of castings.
might be a long shot but wondered if anyone had plans for the dore westbury kit? possibly better chance maybe if i posted on the model engineer UK forum but my log on seems not to be working any more, so thought Id ask here first.
the boring head basically is meant to look like this
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what I got is this
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the kit is bottom right
while I could make it up as I go along when machining, just though it might be useful to know what sizes things were meant to be.
Interestingly the Stuart 10h kit is possibly 1940s vintage as it uses mostly 3/32 BSW threads which I found were replaced with size 7BA bolts in these Kits around 1950.
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11th Aug 2020, 11:02 PM #2Most Valued Member
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Might it be this one?
https://www.ajreeves.com/50_031.html
Steve
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12th Aug 2020, 02:14 AM #3
Hi ZSteve,
Reeves still have the drawings and castings for the boring head. The drawings are currently £5.00 UK.
You can order them via the website.
HTH.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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12th Aug 2020, 09:39 PM #4Golden Member
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thanks, might have to give them a try
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24th Aug 2020, 10:27 PM #5Golden Member
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total cost would be $43 ! just for some drawings and postage.
might have to look elsewhere
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24th Aug 2020, 11:53 PM #6
Hi Steve,
$43 !!! That is ridiculous. A letter, no more than a few grammes to Au.
International Standard
An affordable service for everyday international mail
Max 2kg
Delivery aim 6 to 7 working days
From£1.42Best Regards:
Baron J.
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25th Aug 2020, 12:09 AM #7Most Valued Member
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I'm not surprised about the postage cost at present.
A couple of months back my wife went to post a small padded envelope to her father in NZ for his birthday. Austpost wanted $30 - the reason given was that there isn't much international freight capacity to NZ at present, so they were having to pay for "priority mail" space.
Prior to COVID I'd guess it would have been around $10-15 postage for the same item.
FWIW the envelope is still sitting on the bench here....
Steve
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22nd Nov 2020, 09:29 PM #8Golden Member
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I managed to track down some plans for the boring head and since building the stuart 10h I have been slowly working on machining the castings
this is the alloy saddle
IMG_2872.jpg
then doing the bronze sliding body between centres to fit into the saddle.
IMG_2878.jpg
the bronze was quite abrasive, needing the HSS tool to be resharpened regularly, but I ended up using a carbide bar which needed less maintenance.
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