Hi all….. Rod from Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and just getting back into ME and lathe work after a break of around 30 years
I was recently digging around in a dusty drawer and found this little oscillator which I made goodness how many years ago…..
I can't remember whose castings were used. It sort of looks like a Stuart, but I'm not at all sure it is, and at the tender age of 71 I can't remember…. but it set me off again.
I bought myself a new Warco WM240 lathe (with those new fangled millimetre measurements) and have spent the last couple of weeks re-learning how to use it, and making a few tools and accessories ( and buying some), and now I am (sort of) ready to have a go at making things again. On the cards are a Stuart Twin Oscillator, followed by a Stuart S50.
I am reading just about every thread on here learning all over again.
Rod, I,v got a couple of ideas about your motor, (1) if the motor is 2 1/2" high with a 1" flywheel, and has a bore of 7/16", and a stroke of 7/16" it, the ST Oscillator. (2) similar size, castings from the late 1920s/ early 1930s, and a bore of 1/2", and stroke of 3/4" it is the vertical oscillator version of the Progress motor. So it's probably number one.
John who worked for Nick Staniford sometimes, when I wasn't driving trains or playing around with narrowboats! You taught me how to solder etched brass kits using Coke as flux…I still do that to this day!
John.
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