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I'm exactly the same, with the exception of a car radio I don't listen to anything.

A few months ago I bought a 2 piece ER32 collet chuck assembly from Myford Ltd and it's excellent, strangely though I can't find it on the website now but they do have the same type in your required size.

'ER25 Collet nose adaptor assembly 20/294' , sorry about the link I don't know how to post short ones.

https://www.myford.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000002.pl?WD=collet%20chuck%20er25&PN=ER25%2dCOLLET%2dNOSE%2dADAPTOR%2dASSEMBLY%2d%2dSMALL%2dBORE%2d%2d20%2d294%2d1433%2ehtml#SID=156

Myford and RDG are owned by the same company but have different suppliers.

John

Edited By Sandgrounder on 15/07/2020 06:52:58

There is a firm in Hull called Kingdton Engineering who make leadscrews

http://www.kingston-engineering.co.uk/products.php

John

I've just bought some from here, very good service and the ones I got were the 0.015mm runout series which will do fine for me.

https://www.shop-apt.co.uk/collet-sets.html

Edited By Sandgrounder on 15/06/2020 06:21:31

I think it's a face mask before the ear loops are sewn on.

My apologies if you know this already but the pin that won't hold the shaft, is it in the right hole? On mine to lock the headstock shaft I push the pin in and turn the chuck until it locks, but there are 2 holes diametrically opposite, one has the oiling nipple and the pin won't fully engage and slides out when the chuck is turned and the other the pin fully enters, I can't see how the latter won't hold, it may break something but shouldn't slip.

Edited By Sandgrounder on 05/06/2020 11:50:40

When I worked at Mullard in the 60's they issued salt tabs to the foundry workers.

Years ago I aquired a S7 Mk1 with the old style clutch, it didn't work as a clutch because the "push rod" or " actuating rod" running down the spindle centre was missing, however the previous owner had put a long bolt M10? in it's place and tightened down the adusting screw, this locked the pulley to the spindle, result no clutch action but at least it worked as a lathe.

John

This is a previous post of mine to another thread re' Myford oiling

"After having had two oil guns sold as suitable for a Myford lathe ( neither came from RDG, Myford or any of the main suppliers) which did not work I decided to try something else, from eBay I bought for £7 inc' P & P a used Interlube pump type grease gun, I filled it with Nuto 32 and pumped any remaining grease out on a piece of wood, refilled the gun and did all but one of the Myford nipples with no problems at all except a small amount of oil weeping past the guns filling cap, this I cured with a plastic plug and 'O' ring to provide a seal which wouldn't have been required for grease, the only nipple it won't oil is the one in the 'V' cone pulley, the end fitting on the gun is a little too big, I haven't got around to that yet as I very rarely use the back gear."

I heard that face masks can be good in preventing you touching your mouth or nose inadvertently with your hands which may be contaminated.

I've never sold anything on eBay but from what I see the charges at traditional auctions are not much differerent, watching Paul Martins 'Flog it' programme he always warns about the standard charges which seem to vary from about 15% to 18% plus 20% VAT.

I agree with you and that's why I used it as an example, I don't have an Amazon account or use my school name as a password, and even if I did there's almost certainly no one alive who knows it or records available as to the name or location of my first school.

Exactly my way of thinking, if needed, a few critical passwords can be places or events that are easy to remember, so a password could be the first school I went to and thats what I would write down to remind me what it is, for example Amazon = 1st School.

Years ago, 25+, I bought an almost new condition ML7 bed with metric leadscrew that had been used as an optical bench where I worked, after a couple of years searching, no internet or eBay to help then, I bought a battered Mk1 S7 which apart from a few missing teeth on the back gears had a good headstock which after cleaning up and new gears bolted straight on to the bed along with the S7 tailstock and I'm still using it. However I don't know if all S7 headstocks would fit all ML7's.

I would think this is done quite often, I've bought items on eBay, Preloved, Shpock etc and driven to a addresses with cash, nowhere near the £9000 amount they got robbed of, more like £200 at the most, and I've sold items similarly.

John

I do as well and I know now what it's called.

John

After having had two oil guns sold as suitable for a Myford lathe ( neither came from RDG, Myford or any of the main suppliers) which did not work I decided to try something else, from eBay I bought for £7 inc' P & P a used Interlube pump type grease gun, I filled it with Nuto 32 and pumped any remaining grease out on a piece of wood, refilled the gun and did all but one of the Myford nipples with no problems at all except a small amount of oil weeping past the guns filling cap, this I cured with a plastic plug and 'O' ring to provide a seal which wouldn't have been required for grease, the only nipple it won't oil is the one in the 'V' cone pulley, the end fitting on the gun is a little too big, I haven't got around to that yet as I very rarely use the back gear.

Edited By Sandgrounder on 05/01/2020 08:37:53

I've never had one and I doubt if I would use it if I did, but what does scare me is seeing photos of older lathes for sale with no guards over the drive belts and change wheels.I don't really want more than one danger area (the chuck) to concentrate on.

I have about 800 years left on my leasehold property which costs me £6 per year, I enquired about buying the freehold but my solicitor said that there would be covenants left on the land which will mean that I would still have to pay for any extensions etc. so it would'nt be worth it as the leaseholder would probably charge around £30000 to lift them, otherwise it would be freehold in name only

Thank you all for your very helpful advice which has resulted in me finding the problem, the collet does lock into the nut with a click however it doesn't withdraw the collet, but I found another chuck, a MT3 one, and this nut fits the MT2 one as well, this was assembled the same way and works, I've just tried both a couple of times more and the results the same, the MT2 nut must have a fault, it was just a cheap one but it will suffice now I have a nut that fits.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, the Arc Euro page is very good.

Thanks

John