"Rich" writes:

xstrange wrote:

Thanks for your comments Bruce. I understand that the labour of love is
probably the only profit you would get out of it, just a shame I don't
have the time or room to do it right now. I must say though I'm
surprised this lathe is here in the UK its come along way and I would
of thought that the original user would of bought a Colchester, not
that there better or worse than the Le Blonde but the Le Blonde would
of been quite expensive to import I would of thought, especially during
WWII.

Cheers Rich.

It is funny where machines end up. I just saw some pics of a 50's Kerry
Mark3 lathe at a machine tool dealer in Pennsylvania- it looked in great
shape except was missing the quadrant & gears for the train down to the
gearbox. I was tempted but he was asking $200 and fabbing up a quadrant
(and reversing gears) would have involved a moderate amount of work- on
top of all the work & money going into my 1912 American lathe....

Regards,

Greg