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Thank you for your prompt and helpfull replies, quite why any one should produce these fake plates is a mystery.

Decent iron castings would not be cheap so the profit margin would not be much. Pity really as it would have looked good on my rather scabby wooden workshop shed. If I visit the shop again and he still has the plate for sale will try to beat him down on price. Many thanks Korby.

Back in may a series started about building one of these locos.

Well last week in a junk shop on the south coast I saw a works plate for sale. It was Andrew Barclay No 1609 dated 1918. Twas cast iron painted blue with the lettering picked out in white. Looked genuine I was tempted to buy as it would looked good on the workshop door but £30 was beyond my pocket. Looking on line to see if there was a loco No 1609 I found there were two sellers on ebay offering the identical product. So is there someone knocking out replicas or what. Does anyone know.

Four on the shelf at WH Smith in Croydon yesterday

Always try tool station first then screw fix direct. £11 for a disk bit ott.

When I said straight out of the box I did not mean it literally. Dad bought a Brook motor thro his firm at trade price and fitted it. As he was an electrical engineer he knew what he was doing. Twas wired up with 3 core cable to a 3 pin plug and socket so was earthed. What was happening was the static was flashing over to the belt guard which gave a little tingle.

In those days Myford standard equip included a part machined chuck backplate so you could fit and skim to suit your chuck .if you bought the chuck from them with a new mc they would fit it at the works at no extra cost.

Today that chuck which was a 4 inch Burnerd 3 jaw sc only has a run out of 2-3 thou, can't be bad.

Its a good idea to run an earth from the machine bed back to the main earth point this ensures no nasty shocks.

Another thing he left was a beechwood carpenters mallet , he got it second hand in 1920 at Brighton street market for 2 old pennies. Well its a bit warped and batttered but also still going strong.

In 1959 my father bought a new ml7, unlike chinese stuff it worked straight out of the box as they say everthing was spot on .he used it mainly to make bits for motor bikes and cars. But every so often would get a bit of a shock. Traced it to static on the primary drive belt fixed by rubbing carbon dust on the belt.

Well dad went to the great workshop in the sky many years ago but the m,yford is still going strong

Who was it who said quality remains when the price is long forgotten.

An early B&D publicity picture showed a Workmate with a complete Mini engine and gearbox on it. So that would be at least 350lbs. My 30year old one is battered but unbroken.

Some years ago at the Ally Pally MEX I bought a QCTP from a well known supplier. It said MYFORD on the box but a couple of months later when I got round to trying it out found the mounting hole was 3/8 not 7/16 as needed for ML7. Well if its hardened and ground I have a problem. It was ground but not hardened so opened up hole OK.

Then found tool holders bottomed on the top of the top slide long before the tool tip got anywhere near centre height. Needless to say I had lost the receipt so it sits on the shelf to remind me of my folly. May be it would fit a MINI lathe.

Ho Hum

Twas a sad day when Turtles of Croydon shut down.

Car prop shaft UJ's with grease nipples, the last car I owned so fitted was a 1962 MGB. They were on extension tubes as suggested by DC. Shame the rust fairys got it to the point it sagged in the middle and jammed the doors.

Ho Hum

Thanks for that help seems it is a cutting lube after all. Found an American site now that lists the identical thing. Its called SKYGEEK. The site that is.

Many years ago when Buck and Ryan tool shop was in tottenham ct rd I bought a couple of tubs of what was called Boelube from the bargain box.

It was like a soft pink wax, it worked fine as a lube for drilling and tapping ALI.

But does anyone know its real use. From the label it was a Boeing Aircraft Product.

Also a boot sale find was a very chunky scriber marked ECLIPSE 21.

Anyone out there with an old catalogue say if it was just heavy duty or aimed at a particular trade.Will post some pics in albums when I can get it to work.

Thanks in advance