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Your photo shows only the carriage on the lathe. do you have a top slide for this and if so it should take some sort of vice all of which will bring your work up to the correct height? I have had to increase the head height of my old Sharp mill due to the space taken by the addition of a collet chuck and a decent milling vice.

Hi Phil

Ive pm'd you regarding a pcb. Put me on the list if you will.

many thanks

regards

Quenton

Nice one Neil. I think you have inspired my first loco. Club members have put doubt on the versatility of 31/2 inch so 71/4 it will be And why the heck not?

Hi Bob. High Q is appropriate.

I have been a radio enthusiast since my early teens. I achieved my Radio Amateurs certificate at 14 but didn't take a licence until some years later due to the attraction of the fairer sex, then added motor bikes to girls and was led even farther astray. But I did go on to further study radio and television at the local tech after leaving school and become a radio and TV technician. I eventually took a radio amateur licence in my early 30's and go by the call sign of G0IHE though I am not active at the moment. Electronics has been an enduring interest both as a living and a hobby since my school days and I'm never far from a soldering iron. Now I'm retired I have eventually got round to steam engine building, though I'm still setting up the workshop at the moment.

rgds Quenton

Edited By Q on 19/12/2015 02:03:28

Hi Bob, Hi all.

I too have been looking for a solution to produce an electronic gearbox for my old Myford ML7. To buy an old Myford gearbox to fit it is costly and it would give me a limited combination of gear ratios. For me the sheer simplicity of Bob's (working) design was a revelation. I have looked at the Electronic Lead Screw project and it's far too complex for my needs and much more costly. I have racked my brains for some time to come up with an inexpensive system of my own which works and is not too complex to code as I'm not a programmer but can throw a few lines of code together for the Arduino as long as it doesn't get too deep.

Using two synchronised chips makes the whole thing so simple, bravo to Bob for working it out and sharing. If anyone else comes up with an even better solution I'm all ears. Thanks Bob nice job.

regards Quenton

Hi Bob, I await your article with great anticipation. Ihave already built several Arduino based projects including a bell and horn emulator for my clubs new petrol/electric American Switcher Style locomotive, Yuriey's DRO project and a few others. I was going to design the screwcutting electronic gearbox from scratch but it's always nice to be able to follows someone elses design as so much of the hardwork has already been done .

Good luck with the article and many thanks.

Neil, I love the direction in which you are taking the magazine, keep it up, love the diverse articles and the wider interests being covered. Great job!

Edited By Q on 28/03/2015 15:25:37

Bob, yes please publish your design for the electrickery device, I'm working on ideas for just such an item for my ML7 and have discarded the electonic gearbox groups approach for the same reason as yourself. Please do tell all, my Arduinos await with anticipation

Hi Ben

This is indeed an ML7. It's value depends on the accessories included. Without the original stand for instance it will attract perhaps £200 less than it otherwise would. Ebay is probably your best guide as you will find quite a number of them changing hands. I would say that as it stands it will fetch a minimum of £300+, much more if it has any original accessories such as chucks, milling slide, etc.

regards

Quenton Reed