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Thread: colchester student 6 safti lathe
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2nd May 2007, 12:04 AM #1New Member
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colchester student 6 safti lathe
Hi guys,
Getting desperate now, must be some one who owns one of these lathes in Australia that I could pick there brains.
I've got the lathe bug now and I'm sure most of you know what its like.
p.s.
My wife hates my lathe!!
Thanks in anticipation
Art.
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2nd May 2007, 01:13 AM #2Diamond Member
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Hi Arthur,
I can't help you specifically, but have you seen the www.lathes.co.uk/ website?
This guy has info on hundreds of different brands of lathes.
Also, have you searched for any forums that may have Colchester owners. that may be able to help? I don't know how many of those lathes would be in Oz, but I'm sure there will be heaps in the UK.
Keep trying, something will come up.
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2nd May 2007, 07:13 PM #3New Member
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Thanks mate,
Yes I have looked at that site, I came across a colchester lathe users site and have posted same questions and am waiting reply.
Thanks again
Art.
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2nd May 2007, 09:58 PM #4Diamond Member
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Hi Art,
I found this web page and it has a Colchester Yahoo Group on it.
http://www.homeworkshop.org.uk/links_groups.html
Is that the group you found?
The link, second from the bottom , is for online manuals, so that might be of some help as well.
I downloaded a manual for a Colchester and it has exploded diagrams of the gearbox, etc, so that might be what you need.
Let us know how you go.
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3rd May 2007, 08:16 PM #5New Member
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Thanks again mate,
This is a different site that I have been looking at.
Will check it out.
Regards
Art.
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20th May 2007, 12:06 AM #6New Member
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Finally solved the threading problem, after going through the gearbox checking all the gears etc and found nothing amiss, so went back to checking the back gears and found that by putting the 35t gear on the gearbox input and the 21t on the spindle I was then able to get all the correct threads I selected.
I was sure I had tried this gear combination before but obviously had not.
So I'm very happy now as I thought I had bought a lemon.
My computor had been out of action hence the delay in replying.
Many thanks to all for there help
Regards
Art,
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20th May 2007, 01:29 AM #7Diamond Member
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Ok, good stuff. Glad you got it sorted out.
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