Drummond b type lathe manual

 · Drummond type B flat bed lathe, 3 and 4 jaw chucks. All change gears, loads of www.doorway.ru all an excellent little lathe, not perfect but it is years. Continued: Drummond In Drummond again improved their smallest lathe and renamed it the M-Type, though this particular version, to be altered again for the season, was to have the shortest run of any model (save perhaps the original model produced in and first modified in ). The aim of the new alterations was to improved rigidity and resistance to tool chatter and the.  · Hi I saw this on the Drummond lathes page which is probably best place as there’s lots of these machines about. The ingenuity of former owners is a story always to be investigated. There’s a book by Sparey which can be picked up on. E bay which runs through all of the basics as well as showing how capable they can still www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:

The DRUMMOND 4in. Lathe. CONTRACTORS to The Admiralty, The War Office, The Royal Air Force, H.M. Telegraphs Department, The Crown Agents, THE DRUMMOND 4 A ' Type, Cylindrical Bed Model Makers' Lathe. Foreword. HIS Lathe has been designed to meet the wants of Model Makers and others who require a tool capable of very varied and accurate work. Drummond M-Type Lathe " x 16" gap-bed, backgeared and screwcutting. Complete with 3-jaw chuck, swivelling tool slide, a half-depth body 6-inch Burnerd 4-jaw chuck, large faceplate, small faceplate, chuck backplate, catchplate, tailstock chuck, screwcutting changewheels, a fit-. Besides lathes, Drummonds also produced a very popular range of gear shapers the 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A and 4A - the Maxicut 2A being introduced in and built alongside the larger 4A (introduced in ) until after Another type of gear shaper, the FD, was also produced in several models and ran from to

LATHE Foreword. A few words on the origin and development of the Drummond lathe may be of interest, and will show how uniformly successful this design has been since its first appearance. The original centre lathe was introduced in , and was the first lathe of its size designed on really efficient lines. facturing lathe beds. Although the top surface of the bed is flat, it is not the ordinary so-called ' 'flat English bed." The Drummond form of lathe bed combines the accuracy of the long narrow guides of the American " type with the long wearing qualities consequent on the large wearing surfaces of the " English type. Drummond B-Type Lathe - A bar, cast between the headstock bearings, aimed to improve rigidity and reduce tool chatter whilst the spindle-thread size was increased in size from 3/4" to 1". The headstock bearings lost their expensive-to-produce screwed-ring adjusters (though a similar design was reintroduced in ) - instead the.