Member postings for john lavin

Hi I am looking for a bit of info relating to a Aud Boxford lathe I am renovating, while stripping I damaged the left hand threaded screw in the centre of the clutch knob I think that is what it's called I need to know the size and thread please .

Hi does anyone know where I might be able to aquire a used rise and fall work table for a meddings M2 drill which I bought online but the rise and fall is missing. Thanks for any offers of advice. John

Hi Roderick,

Thanks for your reply sorry I was slow getting back to you, yesterday before I seen your reply I recieved a message back from an ebay trader who is selling lots of this type of collet and to use them on a myford the qick release collet holder has to be used so I will have to sell all the collets with the qick release and buy some of the ER 32 type.

Thanks again. John

hi I have a question which i think someone in the forums will know the answer to, I bought a myford lm7 off Ebay a few months back with some tooling which seems to suggest it was used for production, what I need to know is a bunch of collets that was with it the code on the collets is MA99E made by Hardinge it came with a quick release lever but I plan to sell it on ebay as I have no use for it, I need to know is there an adapter that will take these collets and marry up to the ml7. thanks for any info John

thanks to Hopper and Martin for your replies I will try to get hold of a reamer plus some of your other suggestions I will post back with an update. Thanks again. John

thanks David George 1

I am in the north west, Merseyside a bit to far but the offer was a nice gesture I used to have a box full of reamers and drills along with a lovely long bed boxford on a industrial cabinet with all the trimmings suds pump lights ect but it all had to go quickly as we were moving house, the other people was pushing to get in.Very sorry to see it all go .

Thanks again John.

hi I am doing some restoration on a ml7 , the countershaft bearings needed changing which I managed to do but the new shaft wont go through the bearings which I expected.

I am looking for some ideas on how to ease the bearings I know the correct way is reamers but I dont have any so my options are limited, the only way foward that I can see is to try to borrow an expandable reamer or some emery cloth around a bar in a battery drill. Any ideas would be gratfully recieved. John

Thanks for replies from,

Steamdave, DaveB, Hopper, & Billy Bean, I will go along the sugested route and remove them intact.

I also intend to look at Yahoo lathes info, thanks again John.

Hi new to the forum so may not come across very clear.

I have bought a Myford ml7 which I intend renovate , I have done a bit of stripping down but have come to a stop.

My problem is with the gear box and leadscrew I dont know how to separate them,they are joined by a sleeve about

three inch long with two roll pins which I considered to be one for the leadscrew and one for a stub from box.

With the pins removed I fully expected to just slide the leadscrew away from the box but I was wrong I am hoping someone can put me back on track. Thanks for any advice. John