The White Mill Sandwich

Further progress on getting the lathe running today...we glued all the pulleys that were turrned last week & made up the mounting for the motor. This will be fitted to the wall behind the lathe.

To cut the angle iron pieces for this we used the donkey saw we restored a few weeks ago...

The White Mill Sandwich

This weekend we made a set of flat belt pulleys for the layshaft which will hopefully drive the lathe...
The second picture is the largest pulley being turned whilst mounted on a faceplate on the lathe (yes, that was home made too!) the pulleys were given the convex surface similar to those on the headstock spindle of the lathe. I think that serves to keep the belt in place...

Sandwich Windmill

An unusual cloud formation this morning... the clouds seemed to be pointing towards Sandwich!

The lathe got a little closer to being powered again this morning... we mounted the layshaft under the joists of the floor above the lathe, the next job is to make up a mounting for the motor...

Sandwich Windmill

An old lathe that was donated several years ago whish has been on our list of things to "sort out" recieved some attention this morning...
The lathe is largely complete & looks at if it was originally drven by a flat belt from an overhead shaft. It came to us with a 3/4HP 1425RPM electric motor which I repaired last year (the centrifugal contact which disconnects the starter coils once operating speed has been reached had siezed).
We intend to make up an overhead shaft & mount it above the lathe on the joists of the floor above the lathe, this layshaft will be driven from the motor via a vee belt. I'm thinking that the motor will be mounted on the wall behind the lathe... but that might change as things progress...