Brother's lathe

[berger]

only mee , i have had a lesson in re sizing for this wonderful forum. so now the fog should be no more. this is one of brothers lathes in his house soon to be moved into the workshop

[berger]

the workshop is built minus gutter. i could put it to use as a home for me. he's not a bricky but built it all on his own from the ground up . he only asked me for help to lay the concrete floor, the mans a lunatic. ooo baby chips and gravy i think i have got the hang of picture reduction and useing the new phone at last

[Slymo]

Super 7, Prince of small lathes!

[Minto]

Not a bricky and he built that? Sterling work, that's excellent!

[berger]

he's a sparky minto, but from a very early age he had some sort of natural gift to be able to do brain stuff and practical stuff, the thing is he very rarely asks for help to get things done.  i wouldn't know where to start with a building like that but i'm glad it's nearly finnished because he's doing the engineering on the berger build engine . at the moment he's flatting off areas of the floor where all the machines are going to sit. he has double sockets all around the workshop at 6ft intervals , very handy because he has a lot of machines to go in there. i will bet a case off beer he only asks me to help him get the big lathe in which is also in the house bolted to a very big piece of wood with heavy duty wheels on it

[RDfella]

Excellent work. I can't lay blocks (never mind bricks) to save my life. Getting a straight line isn't too bad, but the vertical line is like a bull's pizz in the snow.....

[berger]

RDfella we had a brick built flower box at the front of the house that was 2ft high and 3ft square ---as i found out later it wasn't . well the faces of the bricks had crumbled over the years so when i was 15 i decided to rebuild it. it had a cast concrete top on it which i lifted off in one piece then built the box again. i put the concrete top back on and it didn't fit how it came off, it was miles out i measured it all and the conclusion was the bricky who had built it in 1954 hadn't built it square and just shutted it up and cast the concrete. the concrete top was so far out it got smashed up, and no it wasn't my work that was out but to do the things my brother does wants me to call him jack of all trades and master of all trades-------------- not jealous at all me because he can't drink black&tans

[berger]

brothers workshop now it is a workshop with little doggy in attendance, he has been making collets because he bought some and they are crap he says

[Greybeard]

Wow, lovely workshop 👍

[terryg]

Time spent sorting that workshop looks well worth it. Impressive!

And better still Berger, you ‘know the man who can’ use it.

[Rex]

I don't think I've ever seen a bigger control box on a manual lathe than the one fitted to that Myford..

[berger]

rex he's a sparky he gets things easily and apparently it does clever things, he told me about it yesterday but i don't understand these things

[berger]

Rex here's another big box