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Hi Andrew, I know nothing about a raglan but as a capstan is it 3Ph ? I know a bit about lathes in general. If you need help or advice about wiring it up I;m not far from you. When moving it bear in mind it will be very heavy and may not be very stable. Good Luck Noel

Just seen the pics, YES it will be VERY heavy and top heavy. It's got a lever operated collet chuck and the capstan looks as though it is like the myford an attachment. When collecting see if there are any collets for it, there may be many bits that are for the capstan. N

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What wonderful friends to have!

It looks as if you might need to find some fittings for the Capstan, such as holders for say, Centre, Roller boxes (Leading and Trailing ), Die Box or Die Holder, Tap Holder, .

If all else fails, you could fabricate / machine some of these Each one is basically a flange with a body with a central bore to hold the particular tool.

If so, probably the first job will be to make some form of adaptor that allows a conventional 3 or 4 jaw chuck to be mounted; unless you can find someone to do the work for you.

(Have you tried contacting The Saracens Head railway group?

Howard

Andrew,

Saracens Head IS a south Lincolnshire group, but they don't seem to have a website.

Maybe the Southern or Northern Federations might have contact details, if you ask

I am sure that if you start asking around Lincolnshire Model Engineering clubs, someone will have a contact..

Maybe someone on here will be able to put you in contact?

They exhibited at the now defunct Spalding Hobbies and Model Engineering Show., and occasionally have met someone who I recognise as a member, although do not know his name.

Mounting a 3 or 4 jaw chuck will require an adaptor which fits the Mandrel bore to carry the chuck.

Once you know what the bore is, a suitable adaptor can be made up (MT stub mandrels are available

(Arc EURO don't sell above 3 MT, but RDG offer a 4 MT. )

Being a Raglan, the mandrel bore may be 4 MT, as "read across" from the centre lathes..

Any info on the Lathes UK site?

Once a backplate is mounted on such an arbor, all machining should ensure that the register is square to the lathe axis, and concentric.

Capstan tooling will be automatically centred of the holder is dowelled to the Capstan head in some way and then bored / reamed from the mandrel..

HTH

Howard

The item with square fins, below the transformer, is a selenium rectifier, mostly likely to provide DC for the electromagnetic clutch.So you will need the panel to use the clutch.

Andrew

I have seen this machine, very clever ! 3/4hp motor with variable speed pulleys feeding 2 electro clutches, giving stepless speeds of 85 to 1750. 24v dc for the clutches. The mandrel has a lever operated collet chuck. The cross slide has 4 stops, 4 way tool post and rear tool post for parting off. The saddle has 4 stops. The capstan is six station and driven off an auxilliary shaft via change wheels. Built for Small production work, a fascinating machine. Noel.