Depends what you are expecting to grind with them.

Out of the two would consider the Clarkeson to be most useful, but you need all the accessories to exploit its capabilities.

Had a couple of Chinese Deckel clones, complete with supplied accessories and sold both in short order, found them to be pretty useless for my needs. Think the original Deckel was designed for sharpening engraver points.

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 10/09/2023 17:29:24

Not sure if relevant but i bought an XYZ 2000 PRO to sell on, seemed like a nice machine, was half tempted to keep it. Think most Bridgeport copies are much of a muchness. It’s more about buying on condition really, a lot of turrets have a hard life with little or no maintenance.

Remember my mate living in a dingy top floor bedsit, it was freezing so he used to plug a fan heater into the communal landing light pendant.

Landlord couldn’t understand why lighting fuse kept blowing !

Built this a good few years back, in fact it was why i bought my first lathe a Cromwell 3.5”. Mr Sparey’s book was a well thumbed tome back then.

Kawasaki ZX900 engine, very lightweight car, approx 450kg with 140bhp and an 11,000 rpm redline.

Made my own rear brake set up using Motorcycle disks and homemade alloy bells. And a mechanical paddle shift system with a quickshifter for clutchless up and down shifts.

Had lots of fun with it once finished, did trackdays at most of the British tracks, Harewood Hillclimb, Curborough Sprint, also plenty of drag racing at York Raceway.

Eventually sold it to lovely chap who drove all the way from Hungary with a trailer attached to collect.

Another ‘crisis’ pedalled by the media……just more smoke and mirrors.

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 17/08/2023 21:18:37

Could you not screw the 16mm allthread into the chuck, cut it off flush and drill and tap it to 3/8” to take the drawbar. Kind of like a threaded insert, fairly certain i did a similar thing when i had a 40 int Beaver. You could thread lock it into place.

Sorry, just read post above, which is an off the shelf solution of what i’m describing.

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 02/08/2023 22:16:53

Haha, the "pipe" started as a lump of 4" solid bar.....3 full

Bags of swarf later as there are two of them.

Can’t help with someone to move it, but they are not nice to shift if sat on the floor. Hauled mine with a flatbed trailer, but it was a pain.

Horrible awkward thing to move about, and surprisingly heavy, rollers are not really an option, you need to crane them ideally. Also make sure you empty the hydraulic tank before transporting, otherwise you will end up with oil everywhere you don't want it to be.

If you do sling it, only use the prescribed lifting points, mine has eyes screwed into the top, don’t be tempted to put straps around the bed, as it’s just sat on the ways.

The height of the lifting points makes it awkward to use something like an engine crane. Mine was craned onto the trailer and i used a block and tackle at my end to get it off.

Good luck with the move.

Funnily enough been making some hinges myself recently

Do you mean one of these ?

Can anyone assist, i need to make new charts/labels for a Myford ML7 gearbox, the old ones have disintegrated due to oil contamination and are illegible.

The gearbox is i believe a Hemmingway/Machin gearbox, made from plans and castings.

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 19/06/2022 16:31:11

It’s an Aciera F4 David, fortunately it came with a manual, including a lubrication schedule, which previous owner obviously didn’t bother reading !

And to answer Swarf Mostly’s question. Fortunately the ways seem to be in A1 condition, so no harm done either way.

Picked up a new to me mill at the weekend, seller proudly mentioned he had greased all the nipples to save me the trouble……yep he’s greased all the oil nipples to the ways. So whats the best thing to do, thought about pumping some diesel through to flush the grease out, followed by the correct way oil……..thoughts on a postcard ?

Ah ok, followed your link to the Femi saga........surely that is a courier issue rather than a faulty saw ? 

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 02/03/2021 21:07:47