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Ah thanks all. Rod; mine has similar markings, except it says 'IR3' and 'OR3'. They must have got fed up with that design sometime between 1960 and recent times. I'll bet someone has a cabinet full of odd-shaped nuts for these, somewhere.

I was hoping to just buy one because I don't have a 1/2" BSW tap. This is a model engineering forum, after all! I might have to wander down to the local narrow gauge railway and see if I can have the borrow of one.

Cheers

John

Well, yes, good advice. I did that before I posted here, which is how I know that current Record swivel bases look like this:

Where the swivelling bit is different to mine. Also, although I've seen spares for the vice itself, I haven't seen spares for the base. So if you have a specific link, that would be welcome.

Regards

John

Hi

I have a Record No. 3 vice with a swivel base. Trouble is, the swivel base has a nut that's split. The base looks like this:

And the nut looks like this:

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(Edit - whoah, aspect ratio is all wrong, but hopefully you can make it out)

The othe nut just split it two. I thought I would be able to buy one as a spare, but the images of swivel bases I've seen are completely different to this one. Could this be an 'early' Record, or a different manufacturer that just happens to fit?

Any leads gratefully received.

Regards

John

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Edited By icon on 29/05/2013 12:55:04

What a resourceful lot you all are! Some great ideas here. Why I didn't at least think of clock spring, I don't know. Bleedin' obvious, really.

Merry Yuletide to all

John

Hi

I need a tiny amount of 0.020" spring steel for the number punch holder of Thomas/Hemingway's universal pillar tool - 0.2" x a couple of inches. I don't really want to buy several lifetimes worth.

There must be some common household or workshop object I can rob something suitable from? My imagination has failed me and I can't think of any.

Cheers

John

Thanks David - that's what I needed to see. Stone me! It was on pretty damn tight, but I rummaged out a C spanner and a 2' tube that fit over the handle. That shifted it.

Cheers

John

Hi

I'm trying to dismantle the tailstock from my ML7R. There's a turned steel component fixed into the back (right hand end) of the main casting - it has an oil nipple and a 1/4" hole in it. Myford call it a 'cap' in their diagram.

It must be secured somehow, because it takes the thrust loads, but I'm being dense and I can't see what's holding it in place. There's a photo of it in GH Thomas' MEWM (photo 97) which seem to show two grooves.

Can anyone give me a clue?

Cheers

John