You'll like this New toy

[Jaws]

Lashed out and bought myself an early birthday pressy
Decided to upgrade my old Myford ML7 lathe

 

[Oldandbald]

Lashed out and bought myself an early birthday pressy
Decided to upgrade my old Myford ML7 lathe

Man I love your posts. This and Suzi Quatro. And that's just this week.

 

[eddyace595]

Nice...........But havnt used a lathe since O level metalwork at high school back in the day..

 

[Jaws]

Nice...........But havnt used a lathe since O level metalwork at high school back in the day..

Only this week I made a pair of bar ends for the project bike ( and from that you will gather how close it is to being finished )
Last week it was a pair of footpegs for a yam, and a couple of hid spacers

I do spend a fair amount of time standing in front of the things

 

[andyBeaker]

I really needed a bench press type drill a few weeks ago........

And I have always wanted a lathe.

Not as much as a CNC cutting machine though!

 

[DEG5Y]

That's a nice piece of kit.
Without sounding like a numpty, how does the drill work?
Are you able to lock the movement of the lathe chuck?

 

[Jaws]

That's a nice piece of kit.
Without sounding like a numpty, how does the drill work?
Are you able to lock the movement of the lathe chuck?

Its primary use is as a mill head, though it is used as drill press too
You lock the work on the cross slide.
You can also get a variable height riser for the slide.

I cannot answer about locking the chuck but I would think so.. Even my old ML7 has that facility

I do not get the new one until circa the 18th of this month.
By agreeing to wait I got a fair chunk of moola off, plus free delivery

 

[Jaws]

BTW, the ML7 is for sale ... £400 with a full set of screw cut gears, multi tool holder and face plate

 

[Quiney]

My lathe was my late father-in-laws. He got it at an engineering show in the 1920's. He insisted that he wanted the one from the show as he knew that they would have checked and taken a very accurate one to demo on. Only problem is that the screw cutting is all imperial.

 

[ianrobbo1]

Man I love your posts. This and Suzi Quatro. And that's just this week.

 

[Oldandbald]

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Give me a break man. It's Suzi Quatro for fcucks sake!

 

[Pow-Lo]

Give me a break man. It's Suzi Quatro for fcucks sake!

 

[noobie]

Lashed out and bought myself an early birthday pressy
Decided to upgrade my old Myford ML7 lathe

How you gonna fit that in the camper van?