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Bill has it. I live in Crowborough so if anyone further away is seriously interested it would be easy enough to take a look at the beast to assess condition. Not terribly heavy for a lathe of tha size. As I've already had a bit to do with a Bantam and a Triumph of similar vintage I'm almost tempted to have a nosey just to a complete the set. Clive
What gears do you have? If it is like my Sieg C3 mini lathe the Manual lists, in various places, 2 x 20T, 30T, 35T, 2 x 40T, 2 x 45T, 50T 55T, 57T, 60T, 65T , and 2 x 80T Against the time when I want to cut Imperial threads, I bought a 63T, (and an extra 45T for some reason. ) For the finest feed rate, the manual advises Driver 20T: Stud 80T/20T Leadscrew:80T This gives a 16:1 reduction, so a 1.5 mm Leadscrew will produce a feed of 0.9375 mm / rev of the chuck. If you want an even finer feed, Neil Wyatt published a program to print 100T gears. Not having a 3D printer, I made mine, bu...