The picture of the MetalMaster on the Home page shows a very nice dividing head. Mr. Urwick mentions in "A Revolutionary Lathe" in the January 1974 Model...
It is my understanding he used a variation on the Turpin design. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mwmills2/files/Dividing_head_plus/ But I prefer the more...
Hi Robert, I've have a copy of the dividing head article, I'll check up on the issue numbers & let you know. Cheers Kerrin The picture of the MetalMaster on...
Hi Robert, Sorry for the delay in getting you the info. However here it is.... The construction series is titled...A Universal Dividing head PLUS by.......
As I posted last week the articles have been posted for more than a year at this location: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mwmills2/files/Dividing_head_plus/ The...
... Hi Kerrin, Thanks for looking, but based on Mr. Urwick's comments in the January 1974 article in Model Engineer, he built his own dividing head for the...
... If you look at the Dividing Head spindle body, the Urwick design is different from the Turpin design: there are two indexing wheels on the Urwick Dividing...
Hi Robert, I've just dug out my Metal Master book & had a quick read, if I read it right David says that he built the Metal Master 20 years prior to writing...
Robert What you are seeing as a second wheel is the vertical column itself. The Turpin design was an improvement of the earlier Potts design of the mid 40s. ...
Sorry, Ken, for how late this reply is -- it's been two months! I've been gathering the tooling and raw materials to to do build Half Pint, but I haven't had...
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... Yeah! sorry for the late response here too!, been playing in the garage with a few other tools, mill and lathe, both need some work on them, lots of time...
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Hi all, I have posted a picture of a simular lathe that Raglan did. I have seen one of these resently and had a go with it and was impressed. Raglan had done...
Hello to All, I saw pictures of castings in the pictures section of this group. Are castings available for this machine or does anyone have a set of patterns...
Hello to All, I saw pictures of castings in the pictures section of this group. Are castings available for this machine or does anyone have a set of patterns...
Just found this site -- I've been fascinated by David Urwick's work for a couple years -- mainly through old ME magazines. The regenerator experiment articles...
Hello, I have been interested in building a full size Metal Master for several years. I have a full set of the plans. If you get around to casting in iron I...
Hello Guys, I've been following this thread for a while and the lack of castings seems to be the bottleneck to progress. I have not looked at the site for some...
I would definitely be interested. I now live in Adelaide, South Australia, and I would be happy to be the "break bulk" handler for Australian orders (if there...
I thought members of the machinist community might be interested in hearing about the $250 "Machine Shop Trade Secrets" Award presented by ProShop Publishing...
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