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Replacement brass plate

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Ross White

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I am not sure what the proper brass plate name is but I recently purchased a Colchester roundhead student lathe and it is missing the brass plate which identifies all the threading selections. Is there anywhere a person can purchase a replacement plate? It was purchased in an estate sale and the son did not know much about the missing plate and nothing about where the family purchased the lathe other than it came out of the local school system at some point. My lathe is serial number MCH \No3/35562. Does that serial number offer any insight as to the vintage etc? Any help is sincerely appreciated.
 
Did it come with a manual? The threading settings should be in it.

@RobinHood is this the same machine you have?
 
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I have a colchester manual, it is for the Triumph 15x48 with Dominion gear box. If this is of any help i can copy and send it. Likely not the same as the student. I have never compared the 2 machines.
 
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@RobinHood is this the same machine you have?
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No, I have a Colchester Master 2500. Quite a bit different from a round head student.

@Ross White : once you find a picture, there is a fellow in the US that makes replacement machine plates. Dig around Keith Rucker’s channel and look for videos of Keith working on his Monarch lathe. He had some plates made, all you need is good colour photograph or PDF of what you are after and the fellow designs / makes the rest. Very good quality as well. Sorry, can’t think of/find the guy’s website at the moment.
 
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Found it. Name is Tom Utley. Here is his website:
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Impressive gallery & what a cool, niche business. Would like to see how he goes about replicating them. I bet the technique must vary by the application.

RH, maybe this is the video you were referring to?

 
Yes, that is one of the videos. No sure how he makes the tags, but they sure are very well done!

The other, more recent one, is this:


Here is the process the Swiss creator “My Mechanics” used to make a replacement name plate for his arbour press

 
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I've been following Tom on IG for a couple of years, he's got a couple of ways he does plates and tags. The layout costs aren't cheap but he will replicate one to almost perfection.
 
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