Howard Lewis | 21/02/2017 14:23:11 |
7227 forum posts 21 photos | With the state of the Faceplate, pity that the lathe has not got Power Cross Feed! Although whatever the shortcoming of your hand feed might be, it will be nothing compared to what has gone before. Good work to be rectifying the brutality meted out by the former users. Stick at it! Howard |
Rick Kirkland 1 | 21/02/2017 22:19:18 |
![]() 175 forum posts | Hopper, It appears there are two of these ML7's in the world. last night I was in The Shed and I was looking at one of the ML7's that are awaiting refurbishment and I noticed that the spindle on one of them is bored out in the end in an identical fashion to yours. The lathe has in fact been abused and I was told that it had been used mostly for cylindrical grinding. the fact that the threads on the leadscrew are nearly non existent seems to be testament to this. Still, , there's not much that can't be put right with a little time, effort and enthusiasm. Rick. |
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