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I have a spare motor tha I m going put up on market place. Thought it might be a good idea to have running for the would be buyer, at this point I am not concerned about have two speed just want it...

if you can drop by in Shellharbour Flinders I have a lot of off cuts in high tensile, stainless, mild steel that due to down sizing I need it gone. Also some flat bar in high tensile Ali 75x30 and...

Thanks I found a guy that sells scrap steel, right now he has 10 tonnes of screwed stainless rod at $10 per kilo, just sent him a message via market place.

I have had Edcon deliver in the past, the charge was $135 to my old address per order. So my practice was to pick up I am going back to Sydney some time in Feb might have try get to Edocn then....

I have a a couple of Facebook pages and have seen a small amount of steel but nothing like I need

Dont think it ever had a pedal set up, here's an original lathe stand set up
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I have Jenson lathe made in Guilford, Sydney sometime in the 1930's by the look of it. I cant find any info about it at, its has a fair amount of the the army green paint so I reckon it served...

I have recently moved to Shellharbour from Prestons and now have to find another steel supplier. Previously used Edcon Steel so what I need is a supplier that will cut to size mild steel sections at...

Have used this type for many years in the vice, these days they are hard to come by

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That would annoy for me no end, yup if you have a mill see if you can lower the offending jaw.

true, :D I dont really have a project for it, just doing a major cleanup and came across it at the back of the shed.

Thanks, painfully obvious, dunno why I didn't think of it myself. Thanks Neil

Indeed, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

I have been given some unusual aluminium rod/bar call it what you will

20mm dia with a steel core of around 3-4mm dia, the pieces I have are 2m long but by the look of it has been cut off a much...

I would agree as a retired engineer with at least 50 years experience. yeah I'm a old bloke :U Heavily involved several industries that use Polyurethane and Polyurethane wheels in a wide variety of...

Thanks for the info. By the look of it they must have made a few models, and they were sold widely across Australia. But info on them is almost nonexistent along with GE Vaughan. There is a...

Bob, thanks for the reply. It does beg the question if I use the VFD to vary the speed or opt to one speed I should then wire to the 80rpm being the fastest, at this point I can see the benefit in...

No plate to the motor. But it may not be as bad as I thought all the wires are numbered 1,2,3 etc and the there corresponding numbers to the switch, should have paid more attention...

Unfortunately some of the info posted has come from me and another owner of a near complete Jen-son, I have lost contact with him.

I have a Jen son lathe and by the look of it made at some point in the 1930's and the electrics were made by G E Vaughan Electrical Engineers of Granville Sydney . Its tempting to believe they may...

Ok I have a Ravinvic two speed coldsaw 40/80 rpm 3hp. The switch has been disconnected and now I have 4 black wires dubiously marked. How I sort this out to get it going?

I picked this up a ...