Mini Lathe Help Needed

[oldbritguy]

Hi All

Bike is abandoned for the moment as my house is a construction site (we have all been there at some point I suppose) so garage is the builders store.

I did however pick up a mini lathe from a guy locally which is missing a few parts. It is one of the little Clarke CL300M jobs with a bit of a sad story.
The guy I got it from told me it belonged to his dad who was an old school engineer and bought it for some hobby stuff. He also has a Myford lathe, Bridgeport mill, line borers, broaching jigs, presses and numerous other proper machining tools

Unfortunately his dad went downhill rapidly with dementia and dismantled all of the machines during his decline, and lost/binned parts for all of the machines. It was really sad to see this broken guy trying to look after his dad and pass on his old beloved machines, every single one dismantled and only partly there.

Back to the mini lathe. It is brand new unused but a slightly older model but missing loads of parts. It still has the transport grease on the cross slide and bed. It is missing a motor plus the variable speed control module/box but I can pick these up as they are relatively generic models from the far east.

I would ask however if anyone has one of these little lathes if they would be willing to take some close up pics of the lead screw/gear wheels set up and the forward /reverse mechanism. That is the gears behind the end cover

I have some parts but no idea what is missing. Any pics may help identify what I should have, and what not so I can cross reference with the parts manual.

Many thanks in advance if anyone can help

John

[chrisg]

You can download manuals, however they may only be operation type manuals.
Maybe phone them and tell them what you need, they may be able to help.

www.clarkeservice.co.uk/product_manuals/metalworking_lathes.shtml

[cb250g5]

Diagram of parts here

www.manualslib.com/manual/726181/Clarke-Metalworker-Cl300m.html?page=29#manual

[JonW]

There was a huge forum presence for these machines i thought when I looked a good few years back when a mate got one. Might be worth asking this on one of those if you can locate one?

Good luck tho, will be a useful machine when youve all the bits

Sad story, hope your mate is ok.

[oldbritguy]

Thanks guys

Links are a great help.

I think I now know what parts I need plus was just looking for some pics to be sure the gear wheels I have are correct for the machine plus ( I have 12 gear wheels in total ??)

I would also like to get a good look at the forward reverse set up as well. Internet search time.

I will give Clarke parts a shout and see what they come up with

John