Yes I made similar mods to my lathe as well. You could be in for quite an adventure, depends how far you want to take it, I have made a handle like yours, but I have also made an arrangement to have various indexing rings on the mandrel, which also acts as a drive for my handle which is removable. I have used the indexing rings successfully many times to make scales, and make index plates. I remove the handle when not in use, but leave the mandrel inside the spindle as swarf does make its way through the spindle and has a nasty habit of falling onto the teeth of the gears. The mandrel prevents these chips from doing any harm and is left attached to my lathe all the time.. Mine is not a Warko lathe but the same principle applies. I use the same goose-neck lights on all my machines and so far I have not had any problems with them. Keep up the good work with the video's.
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Stephen. Indexing rings is something i've been thinking about so maybe some might appear in the future. Just occasionally i have to work on long bits of brass bar which need the whole length of the spindle so leaving something in the end of the spindle wouldn't work for me.
@Xynudu
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Alan, The spindle handle was interesting. I don't have one and just use a shifter on the chuck jaws, but a handle would be useful. Cheers Rob
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Rob. I do quite a bit of manual thread cutting with dies on the lathe and the handle makes the whole job a lot easier.
@CraigLYoung
5 жыл бұрын
Wait until you get to David Richards' steam engine rebuild. He shows how to figure out the dimensions of missing parts. Would love to have his library of old books, just wish he would post more.
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Craig. If that is the engine which had been left disassembled in a wood for a decade or more then i've just started watching those.
@CraigLYoung
5 жыл бұрын
Then you're going to love the slide valve build. Watch closely how he got the require dimensions.
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
@@CraigLYoung Looking forward to it, if i remember correctly from the last video i watched, the slide valve was missing.
@royboydanny1415
4 жыл бұрын
Great mod
@RetroSteamTech
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks. Just had a look at your channel and subscribed. Love those trucks and your railway. Cheers, Alan.
@royboydanny1415
4 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteamTech Thank you 👌🇬🇧
@royboydanny1415
4 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteamTech Hi, I am thinking of purchasing a Warco WM 180 would you recommend it ?.
@RetroSteamTech
4 жыл бұрын
@@royboydanny1415 Hi. Yes I would, I've had mine for getting on 2 years now and it's done everything I've asked of it. If you've watched my video you will have seen that there are areas that can be improved, things like the handles etc. All the really important parts, headstock, tailstock, bed, tool post, motor & gears are fine. If you really want to see what can be done with one check out "ADE'S WORKSHOP", he does amazing work on his WM 180. Cheers, Alan.
@royboydanny1415
4 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteamTech Thank you 👍🇬🇧
@mercerengland3392
3 жыл бұрын
How are these lathes for accuracy? Are the dials accurate?
@RetroSteamTech
3 жыл бұрын
Hi. There is a small amount of backlash but apart from that the dials are fairly accurate.
@stephaniealdridge4964
5 жыл бұрын
Be very careful of that led light you have, I have been using three of them for two years until a week ago, I had a very bad electric shock from mine, when moving the lamps position, They are cheap for a reason there is full mains voltage on some very thinly insulated wires within the flexible arm which means there is full mains voltage in that head. The insulation is not good enough at our voltages. I am a retired electrician and i will be making a warning video on you tube in due course regarding this. I will be converting my other lamps to low voltage and have stopped using them until this is done. A shame because they are a nice working lamp. PLEASE BE CAREFUL
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Stephanie. Thanks for the warning. I'd assumed that the voltage reduction was done in the plastic box which houses the magnet and the switch. Still it should be fairly easy to convert it to low voltage operation. I think i'll get another one and tear it apart to see how easy it would actually be. Thanks again.
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
Just been back on Amazon Stephanie and you can get an identical light which has a USB plug on the end of the lead. Used in conjunction with a mains plug type USB supply you should be perfectly safe as you are only talking about 5 volts DC. I think i'll order one of those and see how i get on with it.
@stephaniealdridge4964
5 жыл бұрын
@@RetroSteamTech Hi thanks for the heads up on the usb style lamp they are a nice size to use btw I just purchased a WM180 for the larger work on my 16mm stuff I been running a tiny Cowells lathe but its to small for a lot of turning. Keep up the posts I,m impressed with mine too.
@RetroSteamTech
5 жыл бұрын
@@stephaniealdridge4964 Sounds like you and i went down the same route 🙂 I started with a tiny Grindturn lathe which was great but you soon start to see it's limitations. Enjoy your WM 180.
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