I use a 12 gauge shotgun brass or bristle cleaning brush

Roy

I would need a 54mm for My Colchester. And couple of swabbies.

And as a kid looking out of my bedroom window and not being able to see the other side of the road!

… That sort of …"coal fires and Flue Brush…"

Oo-er! To what size of lathe have we progressed from one that fits round a plughole-gunge brush?

Still, I like Derek's suggestion, though do wonder how you are meant to wash a plughole brush used as such without simply rinsing the gunge whence it came.

If it's too short for your particular lathe it would seem simple enough to cut the original handle off and fit the brush stem into a hole drilled into a length of dowel.

Regarding using a gun-brush, a boiler-tube brush may be a good alternative.

I usually just push a ball of kitchen-roll paper through the spindle, using a suitable rod or dowel.

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For cleaning out the chip-tray I find a child's polythene toy beach-spade, with a blade about 2 inches wide and a short handle, makes an effective "dust-pan", used in conjunction with an old paint-brush. It fits neatly in the trays around the machine feet in both of the lathes, and the mill.

Edited By Nigel Graham 2 on 29/05/2022 17:51:16

Seek out Radiator Cleaning Brushes, some of which seem to go up to that size, but not all; The one I use is 40mm on the Warco GH1330 with something like a 37mm bore.

Bill.

+1 for one of these, they all seem to have a threaded end to attach a rod of your desired length to pull through the headstock bore. 12 gauge seems ideal for the 2 morse taper on my Myford . The self ejecting tailstock taper is more of a problem at it tends to push any debris up the taper which either needs the shop vacuum or the barrel removing to clear out the rubbish.

Mike