Member postings for Dave Halford

Still good, but if yours is actually a Minor searching sold prices cuts out the dreaming sellers.

In the case of the first link the National Physical Laboratory refers to American species such as White Oak. Doing anything suggested in that paper with English Oak will give you a big blue/black stain from the steel and if left there it will rust away.

You used to be able to get plastic hinges for model aircraft control surfaces maybe they still use them.

Steven,

Given what this link tells us about dry lubricants I think the answer to your question is yes. If you put in too much the unshielded bearings will throw it everywhere so be sparing with the grease.

Chucks sold with Sanou part numbers can be found from Vevor at the old Sanou cheap prices only without any identifying marks on them. Someone on here thought they were as good, but may be a gamble.

Would the 9" be for the larger ME10 Boxford?

Rowan,

As you put it that way.

Do exactly what you want, buy an extra MT1 blank and drill it 6mm clearance.

As Jason says above.

Assuming the Myford itself is not very stiff

The motor is very slow and nowhere near 1400rpm.

The capacitor should be in the black plastic box and not mounted in a terry clip. Someone has tried to fix it and failed.

Running it in it's current slow state the start winding will be constantly powered and hence overheating.

You likely need a new motor.

That explains why Pauls doesn't match the info from Warco.

So can we now assume that the missing clamp bolts may be why the tram is off and why he's somewhat unhappy?

Thats shown in the Utube link i put in your first thread.

Try this one Paul Tramming a round column mill - YouTube as usual with U tube there's 75% faffing and pointless chat It's probably the most mistreated very old mill I've ever seen and the shim looks huge.

Btw I have to say that around 75% of those on here have not been machinists, several are from Telecoms, myself included and one is still a Vet.

With model engineers the big problem is they like to Mod things because someone on Utube says it's much better and will spend an hour telling you so, but miss out a vital step and then you end up with a machine thats different others. For instance the mill in Old Marts link can also be found as a google photo search where the photos are not cropped, one shows two of the bolts holding the column to the base casting one stands proud and is not painted so it's a mod for tramming. However a shim is better as the last thing you need is building in extra wobble that shows on the work.

Surprised to see both Warco Majors are still current in the Warco website.

The GH (gear head) can tilt left or right, the belt drive cannot.

Both round column mounts look to have the same 4 bolts at the base.

Should the tram actually need fixing it's fairly obvious which bolts will need packing after the removal of any paint left in the joint.

Hopefully the machine will already have a milling chuck and a vice. The drill chuck supplied from new is not suitable for milling.

EMG does link but not as easy as it used to be.

Mine isn't, the personal allowance is £12,570 which is more than £200 a week

Payments of over £40,000 a year into private pensions are taxed and also if your pot is over a million quid , which affects only the rich.

Edited By Dave Halford on 25/03/2023 16:00:52

Exactly Chris, there's lots of them out there. Don't know why a using the bench vice is so un appealing.

Other than cutting metal and blowing out broken taps, which is still cutting metal really I use mine for for shaving or errr ................................................ It smells terrible.

Edited By Dave Halford on 25/03/2023 09:04:03

it's a good thing if you have power Xfeed and it works better than manual otherwise there's no point and it's back to the hacksaw.

It's also a good thing if Xfeed backlash is minimal because if the tool digs in suddenly your 4thou per rev can be 25 thou and everything stops.

Looks like a plumbers basin wrench might fit the bigger nut with a little grinding

Steve,

The green 30A one that needed a compressor was originally sold for nearly £90 a couple of years ago. It's your money.

Rotagrip lists them as a drill grinding chuck.