Member postings for Jim Guthrie

John,

What a well kitted out ML10 and it looks in excellent condition. I do like the large hand wheel on the saddle - a much better option than the standard ball handle supplied on mine.

One thought I had about using the Super7 base is that the tool seat might be raised since the centre height of the Super7 is higher than the ML10.

Jim.

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 08/01/2015 18:33:08

John,

Just as an afterthought, but I wonder if the Super7 topslide base will be compatible with your topslide and the replacement crosslide to give you a way out of the problem. Maybe someone with a Super7 could measure the slide dimensions to see if they are the same as your ML10 ones.

http://www.myford.co.uk/acatalog/K24.-TOP-SLIDE-BASE--A2076-678.html

If not, a complete Super7 topslide assembly might be a way out, but a bit expensive.

Jim.

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 08/01/2015 11:22:44

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 08/01/2015 11:23:40

John,

My original Myford ML10 was a fairly early one - No. V111034 - and it has the type of topslide mount which will fit in the long crosslide you have been supplied with - i.e. angled stub on underside of topslide which is locked by two shaped pins in the crosslide tightened by square headed screws. I purchased a replacement long crosslide from Myford a few years ago and it was a straight swap with the original crosslide fitted to my lathe.

However, I had a look in the "Myford ML10 Lathe Manual" by Ian Bradley, published in 1970, shortly after the lathe appeared on the scene and on Page 24 the topslide details shown are exactly the same as yours. So it looks as though the very first ;lathes had your arrangement which was then changed by the time I bought mine in 1973

Jim.

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 08/01/2015 11:06:34

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 08/01/2015 11:08:09

Noting the reference to "pedal driven", I do remember getting a Super Adept in the late 1960s/early 1970s and using it for a few years to help in model making. It started off being mounted on an old Singer sewing machine stand and using the Singer treadle to power it. But I did fit a small motor since treadle turning on that setup was not all that easy. However, like Thomas Oliver's lathe, it did a lot of good work for me and it made me learn to set up a four jaw chuck quickly. It was superceded by an ML10 and lay unused for years until it was passed on to someone else a year or two ago. I've almost come full circle now and have started using a Cowells for a lot of my work, which is not all that different from using the Super Adept - maybe just a tad more accurate.

Jim.

It states H0 scale at the start of the Youtube video, so 16.5mm gauge.

Jim.

That is one feature which would help reading this forum no end. It's a feature common on other forum software and saves having to trawl down a thread to try and work out where your first unread post might be.

Jim.

Ady,

If you contemplate using small diameter milling cutters (~1mm diameter) which are quite short in length, be prepared to look at something like an ER11 collet holder and collets as well as the larger collet systems. The reason is that these small cutters will only project about 15 - 20mm from the collet face and the diameter of the closer nut on ER25/32 can be a bit of an embarrassment when trying to avoid holding clamps, etc.

Jim.

I use wooden cocktail sticks if I have problems holding small nuts. I cut the point off until the end will just press into the nut and give enough friction to hold it, then transfer to the end of the screw/bolt.

Jim.

I would agree with that. I have two small mills - Centec 2A and a Seig KX1 - and the limitations of table size and X axis travel are a constant problem even though I model in smaller scales. In a lot of cases, it can be the lack of room available on the table to clamp items. I would go for as big a table and table movements as you can accommodate/afford.

Jim.

And don't forget a spot of oil on the pulley/spindle interface to avoid problems, especially if you are going to do a lot of backgear work.

Jim.

Simon,

Apart from the other books already mentioned, there's John Haining's book "Introducing model traction Engine Construction". It's not the blow by blow acount of the Mason book, but gives information about the construction of the major parts of a traction engine, with lots of references to his model engine series in the ME some years ago. It's probably worth having along with the other books and it's not too expensive.

Like yourself, I'm also contemplating building a small traction engine - a 1" scale version of one of John Haining's small tractor designs which will probably look more like a 3/4" scale road locomotive. As someone else noted, the boiler design is probably the major factor and that will be my main concern. I'll probably have to build a boiler first to check that it works before starting anything else on the engine.

Jim.

I remember that my basic ML10 with a three jaw, four jaw and Jacobs chuck cost around £200 - bought at the time of Ted Heath's three day week. The motor was got second hand from a dealer in North London, and the lot are still going strong today.

Jim.

Mike,

I noticed when digging around on Google that a £34 voucher might be obtained for a project which might contain a series of files, so the £34 might be able to be divided between several output files.

I dare say it depends on how much work you want to do with the software. If you aim to do a lot of work then multiple vouchers might bring you close to the cost of some other 3D packages. At least you have full use of the application to see if you can make it do what you want.

Jim.

Ronan,

I've just installed the program and also had a bit of a look around. The learning assistance within the program looks not too bad. The other manual file that you can download is actually a Windows help file in the .chm format, so not really a manual as such.

Also, the program is not really free. It is free to download, install and work on it, but it stores the work in its own format and it looks as though you have to purchase a voucher to export this work through another application into whatever file format you require. It looks as though a voucher for each project will cost you £34.

Jim.

Ronan,

Many thanks. I hadn't dug around enough to find that page.

Jim

Ronan,

Where did you get your free version? I've had a look on Google and can only find downloads of evaluation or demo versions which will probably stop working after a short period.

Jim.

Clive,

To carry on from what John Stevenson has said, the most important consideration is, possibly, where your stock is and how you are going handle it. There might also be a consideration about increasing stocking levels so that internet orders for stock items can all be handled from base while the same stock items are at an exhibition and available for purchase. Or you work off one overall source of stock and have a despatch operation running from the exhibition area to handle despatch of items from there. Therefore, if Ketan wanted to maintain the efficiency of his base operation during an exhibition visit, he might have to increase stock, or provide additional remote despatch facilities, or find more staff or have a combination of all three.

I'm not a retailer, so maybe I'm making wrong assumptions here, but I was in business for years and learned, sometimes the hard way, that apparently great ideas should be costed out before implementation.

Jim.

Stewart,

That should be fine with your few drops of oil regularly. I actually modified my ML10 to put wick feed lubricators on the headstock bearings which meant cutting away parts of the belt cover to clear them. I got a bit paranoiac after running the countershaft bearings early on in the life of my lathe - I forgot to oil it. I fitted a new countershaft and oilite bushes and it's still going strong almost forty years later.

Myford did bring out an improved oil pump and it does work a bit better than the original one, in that a higher proportion of the oil actually seems to get into the nipple. I'm not sure if RDG are still supplying that pump. I second the recommendation to join the Myford Group on Yahoo.

Jim.

Is it an earlier ML10 with plain headstock bearings - i.e. steel spindle running directly in the cast iron headstock - or the later Speed 10 which had bearings fitted in the headstock?

Jim.

I just found the original series of articles from the Model Mechanics magazine from this site. The five parts are here

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.....and a follow up with an auxiliary hand pump

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16mm:ft scale or, as near as dammit, 5/8" : ft.

Jim

Edited By Jim Guthrie on 26/07/2012 22:54:13