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All done now except for final painting. Before any comments, the two parts are only tacked together to make sure things are free to move. All stripped down now. Welding finished and parts primed.

Cheers Alan and Stormin from what i have and the photos I have managed to find out it a Colchester Master on one of the pictures I can just make out the Master name on the top of the plate, Based on that it should be 6.5" with a 36 inch between centers, been busy today got out trailer together with our equipment we might need. I am getting exited now one more sleep and an early 4am start ha ha bit like Christmas. Will let you know how we get on when we get back tomorrow. Till then cheers Jordon

A Garden Tractor and Its Boy. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=9592456076&searchurl=ds%3D20%26sortby%3D17%26kn%3Dgarden%2Btractors&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp3-_-title10

Hi, Jordon. Looks like it could be a Colchester Student. A friend had two of them until recently. Have a look here. http://lathes.co.uk/

Had a good day in the workshop today. Got the swivels finished. Turned down to fit through the arm and drilled and tapped for securing bolts. Forgot to take a photo. Spent sometime thinking how and where to mount them. Eventually decided where on the arm and then rigged up a temporary mount for the top one. Couple of nuts with the corners turned off to clear the arm. They will be pinned. I can set the depth down to 8-1/2 inch. Plenty deep enough and I very much doubt I'll plough that deep.

Obtained some threaded bar yesterday from the farm workshop. So this morning I made the adjuster. A piece of round bar with one end drilled and tapped 22mm x 25mm deep. The other end drilled to suit some 3/8 black bar bent to form a handle. The threaded bar was then screwed in and secured with a dowel. I then started on a couple of swivels for the adjusting screw to pass through. One with clearance hole and one tapped out 12mm. Couple of pieces of 1" dia. offcuts out of the scrap box would do the job. Problem was how to drill through the bar. My bench drill won't take sleeve drills. Then I had an idea. Faced off the ends, then put a small centre pop where I wanted to drill. Next fitted the four jaw chuck in the lathe and using a centre in the tail stock, aligned the pop mark with that. The first piece was drilled and tapped. The thread started in the lathe and finished in the vice. Bingo! More lathe work to be done another day.