great work on the clean down and troubleshooting , a brilliant purchase for the workshop. i am currently rebuilding my triumph 2000 with full bearing replacement in the headstock and look forward to seeing how you get on
Very useful video for me as I'm about to do some maintenance on my 1982 Colchester Student 1800, which is similar to the Master 2500. I use it almost every day. I'm thinking it's time to do some work on the cross-slide leadscrew. Maybe replace it with a ballscrew and add a servomotor drive for machining elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic antenna reflectors using a big faceplate and with the bed gap removed. Looking forward to your next video on this refurbishment
Wow, your timing couldn’t be better for me: I just brought home the 1970’s, American market version of the same lathe. I’ll be doing the same kind of tear-down and cleaning, as it sat idle in a damp trailer for a number of years. Needless to say, I’m subscribed and looking forward to your upcoming posts on this project. Thank you!
That was definitely a quality machine at one point, hope it still is. There's an old promo film from the fifties(?) about the Colchester lathe company. Really interesting & one part shows why the headstock bearings are so expensive!!!
I have the same machine circa 1970. I look forward to watching your progress on her. They are an excellent machine, very will made. An absolute joy to run. I've had my lathe for 7 years now, never any trouble. It came out of a maintenance shop and I don't think it saw much use. I run a small jobber shop and it sees steady but gentle use. The machine I have is a mirror image on the apron to your's, it was made for the North American market. Apparently driving on the wrong side of the road isn't the only thing the British do differently😊. Cheers, and great video
Another excellent video, you have become my favorite machining channel from Germany (don't tell Stefan) I trained on one of those lathes more than 35 years ago and if you can get one in good condition you have a real gem. I always thought they were a bit big for smaller work, until I seen what Joe Pieczynski can do with one Thank you again for all your efforts and I look forward to the next video in the series
Looks great. Can't wait to see the Colchester M2.5K being brought back to life again 😍 Subscribed. Hope you will as well on mine. The world turns on Colchester lathes 💪 Best regards
For cleaning precision surfaces I use the scrubbing backside of kitchen sponges and WD40. It cleans rust and oxidation better than rags but doesnt attack the surface
I don't think scotchbrite should do much to hardened precision surfaces. I've heard that some cnc machines are rebuilt by their manufacturers by scrubbing boxed ways with scotchbrite, and even with powdered kitchen cleanser to get oxidation off. If the surface is in pristine condition anyway, and just greasy, I probably wouldn't use it, but if it's oxidized, your best bet is to scrub it back to shiny with scotchbrite. A random orbital sander with the scotchbrite on it works really well and saves a ton of elbow grease!
@@gorak9000 Most machine ways werent hardened well into the 80s and sometimes 90s, even the best and most expensive ones. Scotch brite does remove material, very little but it does.
Score! since it wasn't used in an industrial environment it's probably like new in most areas. The only thing i can think of is sometimes if these old lathes sit on a floor that wasn't level they can take a set so it could be difficult to level them perfectly but for 99.9% of parts that shouldn't affect anything anyway.
Thank you! This is an excellent video, and it is perfect for me. I have a Clausing Colchester 11 inch lathe which is a lot like yours, and I want to do some restoration work on it at some point. Your video will be a big help? BTW are you from Karlsruhe region?
Super job, looking forward to more from you. This is making me want to do the same to my Master 6 1/2" MK4 square head. Which part of Germany are you based? Greetings from NRW.
Nice job but please buy yourself some spanners and buy or make some pin wrenches.... seeing that much adjustable wrench & punch and hammer action on the lathe was traumatising 😟😟😁 The narration was excellent btw, it made it more engaging.
Scotch bright pads are not going to damage ways , unless u rub them for 3 decades with it. The maroon pads are fine. I use wd40 and a maroon scotch pad to clean rust off ways. Ive been restoring and scraping machine ways in for 20years. Please dont spread false information. That machine your doing is in Beautiful condition other then being dirty. That was an easy machine clean up. Great lathe
What you are doing very few lathe owners have done or likely to do, This is why I asked you to talk while working (engkish isn't your first language, it will give you a chance to get more used to it). Before you know it you will be able to talk off the hind leg of a donkey. I think that you are doing a great job it is just a pity that you don't show us more sooner Please it you know what the parts name & a bit of what it does, & it is possible please tell us. It all goes to help build up your subcribers
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great work on the clean down and troubleshooting , a brilliant purchase for the workshop. i am currently rebuilding my triumph 2000 with full bearing replacement in the headstock and look forward to seeing how you get on
Very useful video for me as I'm about to do some maintenance on my 1982 Colchester Student 1800, which is similar to the Master 2500. I use it almost every day. I'm thinking it's time to do some work on the cross-slide leadscrew. Maybe replace it with a ballscrew and add a servomotor drive for machining elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic antenna reflectors using a big faceplate and with the bed gap removed. Looking forward to your next video on this refurbishment
Wow, your timing couldn’t be better for me: I just brought home the 1970’s, American market version of the same lathe. I’ll be doing the same kind of tear-down and cleaning, as it sat idle in a damp trailer for a number of years. Needless to say, I’m subscribed and looking forward to your upcoming posts on this project. Thank you!
That’s awesome! Did it come with a DRO ?
@@PhilEngineering It did come with a Newall DRO, but only a single axis one (Z). I’d like to add a scale to the cross slide and find a 2 axis display.
That was definitely a quality machine at one point, hope it still is. There's an old promo film from the fifties(?) about the Colchester lathe company. Really interesting & one part shows why the headstock bearings are so expensive!!!
I have the same machine circa 1970. I look forward to watching your progress on her.
They are an excellent machine, very will made. An absolute joy to run. I've had my lathe for 7 years now, never any trouble. It came out of a maintenance shop and I don't think it saw much use. I run a small jobber shop and it sees steady but gentle use.
The machine I have is a mirror image on the apron to your's, it was made for the North American market. Apparently driving on the wrong side of the road isn't the only thing the British do differently😊.
Cheers, and great video
Looking forward to part to.
I have a 15x50 of the same model.
Great lathes! You did very well
Excellent video. Thanks for the audio explanations. Thanks again.
Another excellent video, you have become my favorite machining channel from Germany (don't tell Stefan)
I trained on one of those lathes more than 35 years ago and if you can get one in good condition you have a real gem.
I always thought they were a bit big for smaller work, until I seen what Joe Pieczynski can do with one
Thank you again for all your efforts and I look forward to the next video in the series
That's a very nice machine. I'm sure you will have tons of good times using it.
wow...what a perfect lathe. very good machine and it will be perfect for your shop.
Oh nice, I learned on one of these for my apprenticeship about a decade ago, really really good machines though
Looks great. Can't wait to see the Colchester M2.5K being brought back to life again 😍
Subscribed. Hope you will as well on mine.
The world turns on Colchester lathes 💪
Best regards
great improvement with the narration, top video!
Congratulations…
Great machine good acquisition…!
Your English is fantastic and accent a joy…
Best wishes from Australia
I think you have a winner here!
Please more content! Please!
For cleaning precision surfaces I use the scrubbing backside of kitchen sponges and WD40. It cleans rust and oxidation better than rags but doesnt attack the surface
I don't think scotchbrite should do much to hardened precision surfaces. I've heard that some cnc machines are rebuilt by their manufacturers by scrubbing boxed ways with scotchbrite, and even with powdered kitchen cleanser to get oxidation off. If the surface is in pristine condition anyway, and just greasy, I probably wouldn't use it, but if it's oxidized, your best bet is to scrub it back to shiny with scotchbrite. A random orbital sander with the scotchbrite on it works really well and saves a ton of elbow grease!
@@gorak9000 Most machine ways werent hardened well into the 80s and sometimes 90s, even the best and most expensive ones. Scotch brite does remove material, very little but it does.
Very nice work!
This is getting interesting I have the same mill now same lathe :)
Score! since it wasn't used in an industrial environment it's probably like new in most areas. The only thing i can think of is sometimes if these old lathes sit on a floor that wasn't level they can take a set so it could be difficult to level them perfectly but for 99.9% of parts that shouldn't affect anything anyway.
Looks like great series 🎉🎉 what spray fluid/ cleanser you used to clean?
It’s machine parts cleaner in the spray bottle and of course WD 40.
Thank you! This is an excellent video, and it is perfect for me. I have a Clausing Colchester 11 inch lathe which is a lot like yours, and I want to do some restoration work on it at some point. Your video will be a big help?
BTW are you from Karlsruhe region?
Super job, looking forward to more from you. This is making me want to do the same to my Master 6 1/2" MK4 square head. Which part of Germany are you based? Greetings from NRW.
My guess: Karlsruhe area
What do you spray to clean the machine?
Just normal machine parts cleaner.
Very nice lathe
Nice job but please buy yourself some spanners and buy or make some pin wrenches.... seeing that much adjustable wrench & punch and hammer action on the lathe was traumatising 😟😟😁
The narration was excellent btw, it made it more engaging.
An adjustable; AKA, a Swedish nut lathe 😂
What did you pay for the lathe? Seemed to be for a reasonable price (~2500 €???)
I had to buy an entire tool cabinet with the machine, I sold 90% of it, so yes, the machine itself is around 2 grand.
Scotch bright pads are not going to damage ways , unless u rub them for 3 decades with it.
The maroon pads are fine.
I use wd40 and a maroon scotch pad to clean rust off ways.
Ive been restoring and scraping machine ways in for 20years.
Please dont spread false information.
That machine your doing is in Beautiful condition other then being dirty.
That was an easy machine clean up.
Great lathe
What you are doing very few lathe owners have done or likely to do, This is why I asked you to talk while working (engkish isn't your first language, it will give you a chance to get more used to it). Before you know it you will be able to talk off the hind leg of a donkey.
I think that you are doing a great job it is just a pity that you don't show us more sooner
Please it you know what the parts name & a bit of what it does, & it is possible please tell us. It all goes to help build up your subcribers
Schmooo. They're *always* covered in schmooo. Yuck.