Variator
 

Colchester Chipmaster Lathe variator wanted any condition working or not.

There was one on ebay a couple of weeks ago.

I’ve got one......
But you can’t have it

There was one at Brunel College in 1984 but I think it's gone now.

Thanking the above for all their help.

I have seen people dispense with the variator on a chippy and use a vfd instead also makes it 240volt

Tom

There is a bloke somewhere down Bristol way on seems to collect them..

If it is the man i am thinking of you won't get nowt out of he, tight as

I enjoy these threads enormously. And without spoiling the fun, will the punchline suggest that John Fowler was an ignorant man or that Sea Scopia will somehow variate the speed of the lathe?

I reckon that Colchester must have worked for Fowler, he started off as a student.