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Posted by John Stevenson on January 31, 2008, 2:14 pm
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>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:28:35 -0800, ravensworth2674 wrote:
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>> Blackgates Engineering list it as ME8. Sorry, I don't have their new
>> address.
>> That will be the Westbury- not the Dore! N
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>I may be way out of line here, but I've gone through the whole ME index
>(the d/l online one - Chris Heapy?) and can't find any ref. to a boring
>head in conjunction with Edgar Westbury's name.
>There are LOTS, but one I'd look at is by Duplex, who turned out some
>great stuff.
>Mike in BC
I believe the one being talked about is the one designed by Ivan Law
and made by MES.
This was based on a cylinder, instead of dovetail slides, with the
back faced of to finish up D shaped and was designed to be built on a
lathe and no milling machine required.
The star wheel and trip was optional and used for facing operations in
the lathe when screwed onto the spindle.
The spindle thread was the same as a Myford and also the nose of the
Dore Westbury machine.
I built on in the early days as they were cheap and affordable, before
the imports came on the scene.
They were a bit large and bulky but they did a good job.
I did build mine with the star wheel but removed it in favour of a
large calibrated dial as it suited what I did more.
Mine was sold on when I also sold the DW mill
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> Better still, does it appear in any of his lathe books ?
>
> I have the head, but am missing the automatic advance striker. I can make
> a guess at it but it would be interesting to see the original.
>
> I would think that this is the set of drawings that Magicalia sell as WE8,
> but there's no picture on their site, and I'd rather buy one of the Tee
> books than a single set of project drawings.
>
> -adrian