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Hi,

During a year the model engineering club I belong to gets donations of tools, part built models, metal and other various items, these donations are usually sold at auction a couple of times in the year.  However some items do not sell, so, at the Club's annual Steam Rally which was a week or so ago these items are laid out on a table and can be purchased by a donation.  Even so not all of it disappears, so these highly desirable articles are put into 'Lucky Bags' and sold not that forcefully to members.  This year my Lucky Bag more, of a dirty sports bag that I could barely lift that I had parted with £10 for had less of the usual rubbish than usual only about 50% went straight into the bin.

What did I get?  A part built 2.5" gauge locomotive with drawings and most of its castings (the club doesn't have a 2.5" gauge track), a lot of G1 wheel casting (as yet I haven't made a G1 model), a number of lathe accessories which don't fit any of my lathes, and a lot of tin boxes with nuts bolts and various other bits an pieces all of which were either very dirty or rusty.

Among the lathe accessories was a large face plate which was threaded 1" x 12 TPI my lathes mandrel  is 1.25" x 12 TPI.  I have a fairly large face plate which often only just makes it or isn't quite big enough.  I have a job coming up that would be a little testing for my existing face plate, so, I decided to bore out and thread a large size my recent purchase.  I not sure how much interest there will be be here is the inevitable video.
 



Regards Tony.

Thanks for the video Tony.

Excellent job Tony.  I have done a similar job on a smaller scale a while ago, it turned out OK in the end but was a severe learning process!


Dave

Thanks for the video Tony, great job on the machining, i'ts always gratifying to re-purpose old parts and reuse unwanted stuff, well done.
Gary