Colchester Student 1800 Lathe, quick look at some features & accessories
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Follow up video to "new machine day" of the Colchester Student 1800 Lathe just showing the features and accessories it came with.
Sorry about the auto focus, borrowed this camera as mine is not very well and thought it was set but only found out in editing. Also please don't run a lathe with the chuck empty, I forgot while messing with the camera settings.
Amything to add please put in the comments, machining is dangerous any if you follow my way of doing something it is at your own risk, thanks for watching.
We used Colchester lathes in college in the 70's. Found them good lathes to use plus liked the coloured speed dials.
My other half commented the other day about them, saying "Even I couldn't mess that up." Bet she could, haha. Yep I agree very user friendly.
Sweet lathe!
Cheers
You sound like Fred Dibnah! Cheers from Alaska!
Howdo, yep grew up about 10 miles down the road from him, I see his old landrover quite often having some work done at a garage just around the corner. Thanks for watching from Alaska. Cheers
I always thought the 'topslide' was called a compound slide in the UK.
It's funny in my neck of the woods they have always (as far as I know) been a topslide, I don't know if it was someone local who brought it back from the States or read a book, but locals always say topslide but down the road it's compound. I have used both in other videos, just to make it worse. Cheers
Colchester's were the first mass produced precision industrial lathes.
Thanks for the info, did'nt realise the first, but no surprise cos the number of clones and copies proves they got somert right. Cheers
@@mattsbitsnbobsworkshop Colchester's best small lathe was the Chipmaster. These lathes were built mostly from parts from Students. The way Colchester did this was through their quality control system. Parts of close tolerance were specifically selected for use in the construction of the Chipmaster.
I owned a second hand one of these machines for 20 years. A very friendly and accurate lathe to use.
@@haroldpearson6025 I looked at a chipmaster many moons ago but did'nt get on with it so went down the myford road, not sure if it may have been just that one but this student feels better, maybe I got a good one? But like you I know people who love the chipmaster, swings and roundabouts.
i think iv got the handbook some ware for that model bought by mistake
They did'nt make it easy, the Mk1, Mk2, Mk1.5, the roundhead the square head the 1800!!!!