Member postings for Tom Churchman

I'd be interested to know the 'ballpark' figures you get Bountyboy.

I love my 1024 by the way, it's an excellent machine, proper bit of kit.

Got my 1024 picked up from Birmingham and delivered to Northampton about 2 months ago.

I used a guy in Birmingham who is not a machinery mover as such, but does a bit of everything. I was happy enough to give him a decent tip as he took the time to plonk it in the right place at my end.

Luke - 07377 893046 - goes by Luke Bespoke on Facebook if you have it.

Book weight is 1200kg, many movers won't go over a tonne. Luke's wagon / lorry and hiab did it no problem, only struggling with the arm extended.

Luckily the seller supplied 2 bars to fit through the lifting holes in the base, much better than lifting off the bed.

Thanks William

I was being dense, it is on the low quality diagram I have, but I overlooked it as it's shown as being about an inch laterally away from the spigot!

Clive, you are absolutely correct, thanks very much.

There is indeed a tapped hole in the saddle with a missing screw which should enable the spigot to be pinched. Now fitted and a shed load of backlash is gone.

Hello all, I have a newly acquired but second hand Chester 626 and have a problem which has probably been encountered by someone before, but a search doesn't turn up anything.

I have loads of backlash on the X axis, but the feedscrew / nut fit is ok, the problem is that the nut isn't secured to the Y axis saddle, it just sits loosely in a little hole, free to rock about, unlike the Y axis nut which is bolted down.

The nut isn't tapped for a bolt and there isn't one shown in the parts diagram, so I'm wondering if I should just tap it and bolt it down? I can't understand why it's not been done?

Just North of the town, near Brixworth, I travel around the county quite a bit with work (highways) there's certainly some traffic hotspots around and I'm much more he same, prefer to take the possibly longer route to ease the stress.

The railway line cut ok. I think it was unused, so maybe not work hardened as much as an old piece. I had a 50mm face mill come with the mill with brazed carbide cutters and It behaved well. Lots of red hot flying chips though, decent finish, slowish feed and not massive cuts.

Been through the scrap machining phase with the Myford, I used to be able to get hold of a few bits of steel bar where I used to work thinking I was saving money, but, to be honest, most of it was more trouble than it was worth. Unknown grade, pre used / stressed, horrible stuff

Thanks David. I'm mostly self taught though I do have friends with lots of experience which I've picked bits up from.

What keeps me going is learning new things, hence the move from bikes to cars and now some machining. I try to do everything myself which is a steep learning curve at times, but have come to accept that my first go at something is probably going to fail, it really doesn't matter, as long as you learn from your mistakes, the second or third time will be much better.

I'm pretty far from an expert on anything, but like to think I'm a trier.

Hello all, Tom from Northampton.

I've been mostly rebuilding motorbikes and cars for the last 10 or so years. I've had a TIG and a Myford ML7 for that time, but I'm looking to diversify a bit - no more room for big toys!

Just picked up a second hand Chester 626 and have finished my first milling job since a 3 month introduction to general workshop practices about 25 years ago. Pretty simple really for a start, just put a flat on top of a piece of rail track to use as an Anvil.

Nearly finished making a riser block and am learning fast!

Hoping to pick up so me more knowledge here to help me take my hobby in a new direction