Part 4: The Vintage Australian Hercus 9 metal lathe project (Finished! And a new Bench to boot)

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Published 2019-05-23

Part 4: And it's done! Fred sure rocketed forward on the restoration of this old metal Lathe. The Hercus 9" never looked to proud! He also went to town on bulding a heavy duty work table for it to live on, guess I know where I'm going when I need things turned on a lathe!

All Comments (7)

@Warpedsmac 3 years ago

Beautiful Job men!!! Makes me proud I'm an Australian!!. I have the later model Hercus 260 ATM (metric eewww!)
@Howell1982 4 years ago

Neat! I have the EXACT same machine in my shop!
@gregclark5344 3 years ago

I do have an A model that could do with some serious restoration. What I don't have is a FRED. Really nice job.
@NathanNostaw 3 years ago

Beautiful lathe. So nicely restored. I have one as well, but my paint isn't anywhere near as nice. Could use some practice on the knurling though.
@apexannihilator2716 4 years ago

Nice work! I wish I knew a Fred. Did you ever determine whether or not these lathes are compatible with south bends? I see someone asked about that in another video. I recently acquired a 9AR but its missing a bunch of stuff ...well almost everything including the tailstock.
@adammoda2264 1 year ago

hi mate great vids ive got a similiar 9inch hercus i need to replace the headstock belt can you do a vid on how to remove headstoke belt or send me info or a link on how to do. i'm stuck