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This was an odd repair. Had a screw loose within the movement from the rotor gear plate. It was jammed under the Balance wheel preventing it from moving and likely would shake loose from time to time. I got it out and screwed it back in place: correctly and sealed the back and cleaned it up. Ready and working. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

good for you, they're a solid little lathe. The motor upgrade is nice, imo they were under powered. I've got two of them for the moment and just converted one to a Consew motor (DC Servo). Those motors are so nice (the great combination of seemingly decent quality at a low price), I've plans to buy 3 more and put them on a bunch machines.

Got it! rogart63's link to the pic of the 6106A did the trick. Many thanks!

There will be no stopping you now. I always look on ebay to see what is about when it comes to accessories.

Hi All, Thank you to OldHippy for all the help and advice and to Nicksilver and Vinn3. All the help was much appreciated. I have now collected my lovely old Unimat3 lathe, well please with it, all that is needed is a repaint. It was full of metal shavings, etc, I gave it a good clean out, I will strip it later and repaint to tidy it up a tad. The Unimat3 that I got, has the improved drive in the way suggested many years ago by Rex Tingey?, in that the supplied motors on both lathe and vertical column have been replaced by powerful dc motors using toothed belt drive..I must say it works very well, I got some extras with it, including 2 more brand new dc motors, a speed controller spare belts and the original Unimat drive pulley. I have had a little play with it and considering I have not used one before, pleased with what I have achieved, I have made my bush for my contrate wheel, a couple of new tommy bars as the old ones were a bit tired, and a couple of drill centres, apart from the tommy bars, rest made out of recycled clock parts!!!. Now on my way to restoring my Chiming carriage clock..Need to sort out the platform next before I strip and clean. Once again thank you all for the help and advice.. Len

You would also need this one for the train works Parts catalog - Technical guide - 7005A.pdf