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A standard SL1000 as sold during the 1960s
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In this picture the drive is set, using a compound belt run via the idler pulley, to the slowest speed.
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This British-market version of the mid 1960s still carries the importer's name (in this case an Emco-owned company) with the addition of the letters "SL" to the description.
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While the designers did not think of everything they did, thankfully, provide a hole through the end of the headstock spindle to allow a locking bar to be used to assist in chuck removals.
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Whilst the headstock-swivel degree marks were not in the Swiss watchmaker's class there were, nevertheless, a useful addition to the machine. The standard M6 socket-headed screws may have looked slightly out of proportion to the rest of the machine but ensured an easy interchangeability the need for only one Allen key to operate tool set up and slide adjustments.
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The unprotected cross-feed screw quickly became covered with turnings and tended to wear quickly.
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Proper domed screws were used to fasten the bed rails and lock in the tailstock barrel handwheel assembly.
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Although crude, the "close-down" slot in the Emco tailstock casting did at least have the merit of being unusually long to spread the load and reduce the chances of cracking.
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Cast-iron Emco Mk. 2B with dished base casting, a flat-front headstock located by a flat vertical key, a brush-type motor with wire switch and blackened handwheels
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A development of the DB200 Mk. 4 with a convex base castings, wasp-tail handles, a rounded headstock front located by a vertical pin and induction (brush-less) motor.
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