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Norfolk Boy	17/03/2023 20:49:27
74 forum posts 18 photos	" Off topic but anyone reminded of an episode of a detective series in which the murder weapon, an aluminium crutch, was turned to swarf on the Myford the weird murderer had in his living room. The scriptwriter obviously had something against model engineers. " I actually remeber seeing this and I might be mistaken but I think it was a documentary and the crutch was his maothers aid and he disposed of her shall we say without trace in the bath. Apologies for prolonging the off topic semi engineering at least misusing a lathe for nefarious purposes.
Baz	18/03/2023 08:40:43
1033 forum posts 2 photos	Must have taken a long time to turn that crutch to swarf if he used a Myford, we all know you can’t take big cuts on them, just think how much quicker he could have done it on these wonderful machines from China, assuming of course that he had stripped it all down and rebuilt it properly beforehand. Think I will get tin hat and hide for a while.
Hopper	18/03/2023 09:07:58
7881 forum posts 397 photos	Well he would have been able to fit the crutch up spindle hole on a Chinese lathe, which would make the job easier than moving the fixed steady up the bed every time you turned a few inches of the crutch into swarf on the trusty Myford.

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