Member postings for Ian Reid

If anyone has the Instruction sheet Adrian mentions I would like a copy if it could be loaded onto this site.

As Bazyle says mine has 116mm length of galvanised metric M12 threaded rod attached to the top main shaft,which looks out of place. My first thoughts were that this rod was to pass through lathe head spindle and to use a chuck as the holder with a seperate cutter drive motor. Maybe the original owner was thinking the same. Evidently this was not was intended, I have now removed it it.

Trying to loosely fit the attachment to my Myford throws up a lot of questions. I wonder if Andrian might post a couple of photos of his set up, it would help me trying to find what the missing pieces on mine are?

It is, as Adrian Nicolson says, a Colin Walton Wheel and pinion cutter, with a few bits missing. Armed with a name, I found pictures and words on line. Should be fairly straight forward to set up, many thanks.

Its definitely not an early music player,

regards

Ian

Hello, I bought an old ML7 about 25 years ago, it came with a lot of extras, including the one below, I have never figured out how to use it. The brass disk is about 200mm diameter with several tracks of drilled holes from 7 to 144 per track, as in a dividing head. Now seems like a good time to put it in workable condition. Has anyone an idea what it is , who designed it, was it in a magazine,how to mount it, etc, any info. gratefully received, Ian

Hi, I'm a retired Process Engineer in North Wales. Hobbies are mainly mechanical, but include photography and dogs.

I hope to ask for some advice on a mystery item which came with my old ML7, 20 years ago. Currently I cant see how to attach a photo of it but hope to do so soon!