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The knack with a pump can is to hold the nozzle just behind the tip with your left thumb and finger to ensure a good seal.

Indeed. Pump oil cans and ball oilers is a two handed job. Especially when using the bendy spouts which i prefer. I've never ever had a problem getting oil into a ball oiler. And all my cans in the machine shop are cheap Chinese pump cans @ 3 quid a throw. All work great.

Yes Geoff, I have them on my Boxford shaper,never quite sure if enough oil is getting where I want it, short of dismantling the machine to remove them by driving out from underneath how can they be removed? When I got my shaper it was stripped and these oilers were blown through to clear and they seemed fine now am not so sure

Mick

I`m a bit biased towards old machinery ,i had a chester conquest but never really used it much and was basically a total novice .Then bought a southbend around 5 years ago for £250 from the mid 1960`s , very good condition with slight wear on the v bed.

I renovated it and my interest in lathes really peaked whilst totally dismantling it and painting it . You learn an awful lot about how machinery works when you do this. It came with two vertical slides, i sold the myford swivelling one for over £100. It has both rests and the telescopic type which can sell for quite alot . Also came with quite a bit of tooling and an emco quick change toolpost. The four jaw pratt burnerd chuck was unused just covered in gunk.

I just find old machinery much more interesting and more solidly built .

Edited By mark smith 20 on 19/10/2017 16:07:00

Thanks Ketan,

John helped me out a lot when I started this job. It was about six months before I realised he was the same bloke who had done me a couple of favours a year or two earlier!

I hope John knows how much I appreciate his help, but I want to record here just how grateful I am to him.

As a dedicated tea drinker I even forgive him for making me drink workshop coffee made with powdered milk out of a mug that looked like he'd been keeping rusty nails in it...

Keep smiling, Sir John of Blidgeport.

Neil

Yes, I think Super 7 prices have gone off the scale, compared with ML7s, and I can't see that they are so superior as to be worth the extra premium.

In fact, from my experience, the Hercus (Aussie South Bend clone) is a far better made machine than teh Myfords and sell for much less money than a Super 7. The UK equivalent would be the Boxford. Certainly worth a look. The inverted V beds on them certainly seem to wear better than the swarf-prone flat bed Myfords for starters. And the overall machine is slightly larger but much more robustly built, in the American tradition. (Think Cadillac Eldorado vs Morris Oxford, or Harley Davidson vs Royal Enfield). Not sure about the Boxford, but the Hercus/South Bend construction is all cast iron, not that cheapo Mazak zinc-aluminium pot metal that much of the Myford is pumped out in. Mazak would never have stood up to the Yanks. They expect stuff to be tough.

"like" button pressed. +1.

Lotta votes for Boxford on here.......

Armchair - check

Popcorn - check

Beer - check

Let battle commence!

Andrew

Edited By Andrew Johnston on 18/10/2017 20:19:02

How do you think they made Spitfires then? No DROs in those day, but plenty of accuracy.

Not unusual for lathe work to be done to tenths of a thou using the dials and operator's "feel". One trick they used was to turn the topslide to about 6 degrees. By using the topslide handle to put on the cut, one thou movement of the topslide moved the tool inwards by one tenth of a thou.

If they used these, you could get away with a £4 oil can...

Another two day top speed event at Elvington this weekend sadly Rider Jack Frost from Ireland had his Hole shot van and top speed motorcycle machines stolen yesterday while in a hotel at South Milford.

When van found it was burnt out with two special motorcycles destroyed as well as a third Busa machine stolen.

As the machines are not insured in transit and £10,000 Snap on tools gone for a small business a hell of a blow.

Such a waste the work he has done in developing these bikes over the years is mind blowing now gone in mindless vandalism.

That terrible terrorist attack in Barcelona was near my Nephews accommodation he was at work at the time otherwise he might have been walking in the place the atrocity took place.

What is the World coming to?

Edited By Windy on 19/08/2017 03:14:36

Edited By mark smith 20 on 09/09/2017 19:27:49

Got the vice together apart from jaws, stoned all the dings /burrs of all the slideways, had to make new jib strip . Also

put the `t` back in British. The vice opens an closes pretty stiffly ,almost impossible by hand but easy with a handle. I suppose tighter is better where milling is concerned.