Member postings for Peter Walsh 4

Hi Trevor,

Chronos list them too ( £ 16 cheapest) but none in stock.

It may be cheaper to wait for an old back plate to come up on Ebay and fit it to that.

Regards Peter

Hi Ian J,

Thanks for the offer, I am in High Wycombe area, I'm not in a rush so if I can't find one locally I'll give you a shout as I may be up that way in February

Hi George,

Thanks for the info, I'll take a look there.

Regards

Peter

Hi Angus,

Not really a model maker either, bought a lathe to make some round bits ended up restoring/improving that one the bought another which needs some minor enhancements. One day I'll get around to making the round bits I bought the first lathe to make!

Anyone got an 1 1/8 th x 12 BSW tap to clean up a thread on a Myford chuck plate?

Regards Peter

I'm in the process of fitting a DRO setup to a Myford Lathe using the same slides.

I'm using Shahe scales bought through AliExpress, I had no trouble with ordering and the slides arrived in 2 weeks.

**LINK**

I'll ditch the displays and will use TouchDRO on a tablet or mobile phone, see Yuris Toys, this has lots of options for setting up drilling patterns and plenty of tutorials online, There is an alternative screen for lathes.

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This uses some interface hardware based on Arduino all described on his site and picked up on Ebay

All in the parts for a 2 axis kit were about £100. Fitting the cross slide scale will be the hard part, not too much room on an ML7. After Christmas there should be plenty of cheep used Android Tablets around to use as a screen, I'll look for a Tesco Hudl or a cheep chines clone they sell used about £20.

I'll post some pics when I get it up and running.

Regards

Peter

New member here, just traded up from a Drummond ML4 to a Myford ML7.

Few jobs little jobs to get it up to spec, fitted a 3 phase motor with variable speed control, eBay bargains and Chinese switch gear.

Shahe DRO with Adruino interface with TouchDRO in progress.

Back plate for 4 jaw chuck needs a tap run down it so if anyone has a 1 1/8 12 TPI tap they would sell/loan please get in touch

Regards

Peter