Air Arms Owners Club

4 years ago my father passed away and his workshop wasn’t disturbed until 6 months ago. His lathe was still on the bench but a broken sky lights had let in loads of rain. With the rain came some good size ivy

As a keen machinist he would have been beside him self if he had seen it. Now as a remembrance to him I have fully renovated it. 5 and a half months later it’s finished
It has taken many hours to complete it. It’s an imperial model made in 1952.
My dads imperial spanner’s came in very handy
I hope you enjoy seeing it as I did renovating it.

BBF

Well done ray the old man would be proud of you, you've done a top job there

Gorgeous little lathe. Might send you a few little jobs to make for me

Looks great.
I hope you plan to use it now you have restored it.
Kevin.

well done Ray , you made a fantastic job of the renovation, your Dad would be proud of you .

Nicely done sir!

Looks like a cracking bit of kit

Top job you've made of that You can see why they've always been the first choice for loads of people in model engineering over the years.

Thanks for the nice comments.
It has been a real journey.
The lathe was in a right state and to be honest almost scrap,but I knew I needed to do this.
I’m sure my dad would want it back if he was still with us

BBF

get to see it back to its best again well done .

That is beautiful!