rj's and burbans are indeed nicknamed nut roasters....
early RJ's were belt drive, later ones and suburbans were unidrive 3 speed transaxles. Fairly easy to spot the early ones due to the belt cover and simple front axle, the suburbans were cast axle.
Anyone feel free to correct me - I may well have made all this up
Hope you find a spare Mark, just realised you had the Dash Tower mounted Black Tank on 'Bendy'.....just sold my spare one (reluctantly), so can't help.
I think I recall seeing your Face Plate on a bench in a pic of your old Workshop (before your move) you posted in 'What Lathe have you got' (What's in the shed Forum), but when I checked, the pic is not linked any more,....... I was sure you had one though.
Cant find it! Found my four jaw, and quick 3 jaw and a heap of bits.... but no face plate. So I either borrow my dad's or buy another
I've started my next project and ordered some laser cut discs 12mm x 181mm. Based on my careful measurement of my lathe swing...
Doh!
A bodger would file the corner off the bed as the carriage can't travel that far!
an engineer would frown, and as I'm an engineer and it's a 60 year old lathe I will have to find a solution that doesn't include buying a bigger lathe!
Ive four of them to turn down so it needs to be effective
1960 Wheel Horse Suburban
in Ride On's
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rj's and burbans are indeed nicknamed nut roasters....
early RJ's were belt drive, later ones and suburbans were unidrive 3 speed transaxles. Fairly easy to spot the early ones due to the belt cover and simple front axle, the suburbans were cast axle.
Anyone feel free to correct me - I may well have made all this up