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Free Raglan lathe - for collection - Tony Griffiths - 21-04-2022
Here's a bargain for the impecunious - and not yet advertised anywhere else. Free for collection in Portsmouth is a Mk.1 Raglan Little John Lathe 5" x 24" backgeared, screwcutting and mounted on the maker's stand.
Includes a 3-jaw chuck, 4-jaw independent chuck, fixed steady, a set of screwcutting changewheels, and probably other items. 1-phase motor.
Needs a pair of new internal drive belts (a simple job, you can use this). In one family for 70 years; unused for several years and very dirty - but perfectly recoverable.
All you must do is promise not to break it for spares; the last one I did, 12 years ago, raised about £650 in parts.
In good working order, a Mk.1 Raglan Little John commands between £650 and £950
The lathe is identical to this one: http://www.lathes.co.uk/raglan/page6.html
Raglan lathe specification details: http://www.lathes.co.uk/raglan/index.html
Phone the owner, Steve, at Bramble Forge 07393-353770
RE: Free Raglan lathe - for collection - Bob Culver - 21-04-2022
With a gearbox it is a cut above the usual over priced worn out Myford.
I am curious how a large sum would be recovered from parts. Broken gears can usualy be adequately repaired. Can lathe owners not make their own replacement feed screws? When I was shopping for a lathe 50 years ago one firm had a new one with the bed in two pieces!
(In 1941 my plumber father showed his hobby artifacts including new cross feed screw to the Air Force selection panel and thereby avoided taking his slim chance with the Army in North Africa, Greece, Crete and Italy, and enabling the interest, and his RP, to perpetuate. Hobbies considered quaint by many have their virtues)
RE: Free Raglan lathe - for collection - Charles P - 21-04-2022
(21-04-2022, 10:39 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: Here's a bargain for the impecunious - and not yet advertised anywhere else. Free for collection in Portsmouth is a Mk.1 Raglan Little John Lathe 5" x 24" backgeared, screwcutting and mounted on the maker's stand.
Includes a 3-jaw chuck, 4-jaw independent chuck, fixed steady, a set of screwcutting changewheels, and probably other items. 1-phase motor.
Needs a pair of new internal drive belts (a simple job, you can use this). In one family for 70 years; unused for several years and very dirty - but perfectly recoverable.
All you must do is promise not to break it for spares; the last one I did, 12 years ago, raised about £650 in parts.
In good working order, a Mk.1 Raglan Little John commands between £650 and £950
The lathe is identical to this one: http://www.lathes.co.uk/raglan/page6.html
Raglan lathe specification details: http://www.lathes.co.uk/raglan/index.html
Phone the owner, Steve, at Bramble Forge 07393-353770
Another brilliant offer Tony. Well done.
Hopefully someone here will benefit from this generous offer
Charles
RE: Free Raglan lathe - for collection - Duncan Grimmond - 23-04-2022
I'd love it but it's so far away!
RE: Free Raglan lathe - for collection - Tony Griffiths - 23-04-2022
Collect it on the way back from France...
RE: Free Raglan lathe - for collection - JonE - 26-04-2022
I rang him - nice chap - (after faffing with a valve I'd like to try and lighten and finding that all the other ways apart from a lathe are essentially bodges...) and I think it's definitely gone now. Good to investigate such things, so thanks, Tony.