Hello from south wales

[Marc JonahParticipant @marcjonah71323]

Hi all, I'm Marc from Usk in South Wales, im a gas engineer and farmer and I've just bought a Mitchell lathe and need some help which I'll post in another thread soon.

Thanks

[Marc JonahParticipant @marcjonah71323]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hello Marc,

I was born & brought up in Barry! Welcome to the forum.

Neil

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

Hello Marc and welcome – I was raised in Pontypool and spent many happy hols at Barry as a very young child. Aunty Joyce lost me on Barry beach once for an hour – I remember her crying when she found me. The Mitchell looks to be a bit bigger than the average model makers lathe – what will you be making with it?

Rik

[Marc JonahParticipant @marcjonah71323]

Thank you both, pontypool only a few miles from me. The Mitchell is a fair size machine (for me anyway) but I only really had this one as the price was right and I was hoping to use it to do general farm repair stuff with it but I'm trying to figure out the quick change gearbox for thread cutting and I'm stuck… I don't have a manual and tried Tony's lathe but haven't heard anything back so thought I'd ask out here.

[ScrumpyParticipant @scrumpy]

Hi I have a Mitchell lathe when I was an apprentice some some 55 years ago a new Mitchell lathe was being installed my first job was to clean it when the factory closed some 45 years later I purchased it for £300-00 a very good purchase what model is yours as I have a manual and I may be able to help

[Marc JonahParticipant @marcjonah71323]

Cheers scrumpy, I'm honestly not sure but the pictures are in my album under my name.

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