Got this freebie today.

That was my second lathe, before my Myford ML10. ;-)

I can't remember if it was the same as mine but looks a bit bigger?

What a shame it was left to get like that. ;-(

Plenty to play with there!

You should find plenty of support online as they were / are a fairly common / popular starter lathe.

For wood turning?

Enjoy!

Cheers, T i m

I still remember my first day at work in a factory, mid 60's, aged 16, Saturday job in the Goblin factory in Leatherhead. Traditional saw-tooth roof with mesh reinforced glazing in the steep bits. Foreman pointed up at the roof about 20 feet above where there was a classic "bullet hole" type hole. "That's where the chuck key from this lathe goes if you turn it on with the key in the chuck". Never forgotten!

For metal.

Toolbits?

Cheers, T i m

:-) As per image, my terminology.

When I joined BT the first week was mostly 'induction' and that included a load of safety videos.

One was set in such a factory with the managers office above an engineering shop floor and a mesh gangway going from there to the other end of the building and another office for the admin staff.

Mini-skirt days ... guy with long hair working on a big lathe, distracted looking up watching 'a secretary' traversing the walkway and you see the start of his hair being caught round the chuck and the rest was left to your imagination. ;-(

The next 'victim' was a guy standing by a stack of pallets and the forklift driver distracted ...

Another video was about the use of eye, hand and hearing protection and working practice. 'John is changing the fuse on a plug but not working down on a surface but into his hand, the screwdrivers slips ..' you actually get to see a very real (reconstruction?) of a long thin screwdriver right though the palm of someone's hand <gag>. Another where 'John is climbing up a telegraph pole and is wearing 'jewellery' (a ring) but no gloves. He slips ...' and the ring catches in the hook on the end of the step and takes all the flesh off from the knuckle to the end. ;-(

An anti-smoking video with an autopsy where they removed a (dead) smokers lung and showed you how it was affected ... <gag>

All this was nearly 50 years ago now and yet I can still visualise all of it like it was yesterday ... which I guess was the goal?

Whilst I will sometimes take *some* safety liberties, I know when I'm taking them.

Cheers, T i m

Now, what you will need to deal with those is a bench grinder of some sort, ideally with a coarse and fine stones (and a little tub of water to quench the bits in). ;-)

You will often find the PO has made many of those tools for specific jobs and you might find yourself using just one or two for most jobs.

One thing you might not appreciate straight away is any height adjustment the has been made to a tool to allow it to go straight in the toolpost and be at the right height (slightly below centre when turning externally), without the need of shims or packing.

That said and subject to the size of the tools required (the section of the shank), you might be better off with a small set of 'removable tipped' tools as all the hard work has been done for you (angles etc) and you can easily change the tip if you beak one.

Re the rust / cleaning ... you want to remove the rust but the least amount of metal as possible, especially from the bed tubes so slow and gentle might be the way. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Thanks for your help Tim, should be interesting times ahead. Will probably be a couple weeks before I start the clean up due to other jobs around the house but I enjoy stripping (mechanical) things down and restoring as best I can.

You are more than welcome and thanks for sharing your windfall here. ;-)

And might give you chance in the meantime to pin down the exact model (assuming there is no info-plate etc).

I wonder if it's a Unimat Mk4?

(and what yours might have once looked like). ;-)