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A plethora of Brians! Cheers guys. and Chris. Thanks for the welcome.

No idea, first desire is to build a functioning workshop from the packed garage mayhem that currently exist. No welder as yet, that of course is a must have and might need that sooner than i thought. did stick a mg midget back together a good few decades ago with a mig, so hopefully that will come back easily enough. Once got lathe functioning then milling machine, then the shaper. With learning how to use them at least to a basic level competently, that will no doubt take me up to next summer at least given rest of life.

As for what then, no idea, just wish to be able to make what i need, whether in metal or wood. Home foundry work is of interest, fascinated by the 'Gingery' home casting books.

Yeah that £65 price wasn't even for the raising blocks, just 4 adjusting bolts!

Thanks for the description, will drop you a mail.

John

John here. A Taunton based wave, anybody local do feel free to reach out.

So annoyingly my dad died a decade back (He was a radio engineer though with huge mechanical skills, very old school) and amongst other things my inheritance included a few hundred copies of M.E starting off in the 30's and progressing through the war and to the years beyond. This included the issues around The bombing of the M.E publishing house and their refusal to not get waylaid by such a triviality. fascinating stuff. The interesting thing is that basically all issues and articles pretty much ignore the war completely, lest it interrupts with the important stuff!

So having got the bug and having moved to a new residence with a decent sized garage I decided to revert to second childhood early and bought myself a Myford 7, a Centec 1a mill and an Alba shaper. Job lot from a guy in north wales. Heavy metal indeed!

Why? shrug, engineering fascinates me and I wish to make stuff, no idea what, lets get a workshop up and running first! The journey is the experience not some end product, I like knowledge and the gaining of it.

I practise and teach a martial art for 30 years, was in I.T. (back when it was interesting) so very used to people looking to me for the answers, so it is also very refreshing to admit that i know very little here, all going to be a brand new journey, as a result I will no doubt be asking some very daft questions. Rest assured I will have tried to find out the answer first .

The Myford came with a rubbish stand so have managed to source an original and first job is mounting that on an uneven floor. Am 6'4 so need it raised, so decided to place it on high density concrete blocks eventually hoping to get the drip tray and raiser blocks as time and money allow. Self levelling compound and sit them on it or just four mortar beds?

I admit some things confuse me, why are four levelling screws £60+ from myford, is this not the whole point of having a lathe?

Anyway forgive the above ramble, its all a bit overwhelming at this point, but that of course is the fun.

John