email: tony@lathes.co.uk
Home   Machine Tool Archive   Machine-tools Sale & Wanted
Machine Tool Manuals   Catalogues   Belts   Books  Accessories

SCOPE Multi-purpose Lathe - Page 2
by Kneller Engineering

Scope Home Page   A Restored Scope

A reproduction catalogue is avaiable for the Scope




Tailstock complete with top-mounted bracket and tool bar

Headstock end elevation

Section through carriage assembly showing the leadscrew inside the front bed tube and the power-feed motor attached to the back of the cross slide.







A Scope in as-found condition on its original cast-iron tray



Having stripped the tailstock and saddle for cleaning and it was then that I noticed various unusual features: the wheel controlling the rise and fall has an adjustable central disc (Fig. 1) engraved with degree graduations - but (originally) no cursor against which to read the setting

So, the way the scale is used for angular positioning of the cross-slide is that the handwheel is rotated until the cursor reads zero on the rim's angular scale, the Allen screw A is tightened to clamp the feedscrew; the clamping bolt B slackened and the column rotated against the angular scale to allow the column to be rotated to the required position; finally, bolt B tightened again. (Fig 2).

…..Thus locked, when the cross-slide assembly was rotated, the handwheel rotated with it and the supposed 'vernier scale' was, in fact an angular scale showing degrees of rotation (Fig 3). Obviously the setting needs to be read against a cursor so I made a replacement - slightly different from the original in being secured to the bottom bracket of the rise-and-fall system by an adapter fitted in the threaded hole for the oil nipple (Fig 1). To return the cross-slide to 'zero' it would seem that 'clocking it' would be the best bet.


Scope Home Page    A Restored Scope

A reproduction catalogue is avaiable for the Scope

SCOPE Multi-purpose Lathe - Page 3
by Kneller Engineering
email: tony@lathes.co.uk
Home   Machine Tool Archive   Machine-tools Sale & Wanted
Machine Tool Manuals   Catalogues   Belts   Books  Accessories