It's not obvious to see how this recent acquisition might become an obsession but then, you don't know me, I obsess easily 😉

In 1984 I took a job as a design engineer with an electrical switchgear company called Dorman Smith in Preston.

The Design manager then was Doug Eaves, a man we all liked and respected.

Doug died last year in his eighties and a mutual friend who was helping his wife to clear his workshop prior to a house move offered me his old lathe.

I find there's something special about taking on another person's tools. It makes me think of how they worked, the ideas for the projects that claimed their waking thoughts.

I already had several projects on but as I start the refurbishment of this useful tool it's quickly become my new obsession.

One thing's for sure, it won't be red when I've finished.

#Lathe #MachineTools #Engineering #Restoration #Emco

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I think my feeds were too low and speed was too high: I have filled my workshop and hands with millions of invisible steel needles.

I have spent *literal hours* picking them out of my fingers with tweezers under a microscope. My god. I keep finding more! There has to be a better way 🤣

Machinist friends: do you have any tips? Should I be attempting to get bigger chips? Or just try to limit spread/exposure? Or just live with it??? Metalhands!!

#emco #unimat #machining #metalwork #making

Not too shabby! I’m very pleased with this. #emco #unimat #milling #metalwork #making

Nearly there! Milling done, time to deburr #emco #unimat #mill #making #metalwork