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I've been quiet for the last while. Life has a bad habit of getting in the way. With the youngest launched into first year university, the wife recovering from a mental health episode, and my dominant hand recovered enough from spring surgery that I can use it, this middle aged man's thoughts...

So I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion I'm an idiot who shouldn't be let out without a keeper. Couple of years ago I picked up a camelback drill press, Canadian Forge and Blower brand. The machine has been electrified, i.e. there is a switch bolted to the side of it and a hacked together belt...

Good day all. For background, a couple weeks ago a rain storm in the kitchen kicked off a bathroom renovation much sooner than anticipated. Now here's the problem. My Scotish ancestry (I'm not cheap, I'm frugal!) combined with growing up and living in a poor rural area of New Brunswick means...

Now that I have the concrete slab poured and the lathe bed pretty well positioned where I want it, I'm in the process of reassembly. In doing this I'm disassembling and cleaning a century worth of oil, grease, crud and paint from the sub assemblies. Oy the paint! I've counted so far at least...

Making progress on my old Faye and Scott beast. I've even turned out a couple pieces I needed for other projects. I find myself in the enviable, or perhaps unenviable position of pouring my own concrete floor and base for my machines. My garage is gravel floored and as such is a blank...

Good day all. After some mistaken purchasing of tooling and ASS-u-ME-ing that my very old Fay and Scott lathe used a Mores taper in the tail stock I finally broke down and did some actual semi-careful measuring of a rather battered dead centre that fits in the tail stock which came in my box...

Good day folks. As some of you probably saw in my "introduce yourself" thread, I've acquired a line shaft driven Fay and Scott that looks like it's a 14" x 40" machine. I've got some belting and the jack shaft with hangers. What I also have is a 2HP 120/240v single phase motor that looks to...

Greetings and Hallucinations from the wilds of New Brunswick. I'm located about 20 min north of Woodstock and have recently pulled the trigger on some shop equipment of my own. Merry Christmas to me! What we're looking at here is about 1 1/2 Fay & Scott lathes in the 14x40 range, a Canadian...