What's missing from this picture?

Hi.

When I bought my lathe a few months ago it came with various odds and sods most of which were easily identified. However there is what I think is a milling attachment but it looks incomplete. Can anybody tell me what is missing from it please. If it matters the lathe is an ML2.

Edited By Richard Hardcastle on 25/05/2016 14:04:54

Edited By Richard Hardcastle on 25/05/2016 14:07:34

Edited By Richard Hardcastle on 25/05/2016 14:08:21

It looks like a homebrew vertical slide which would be mounted with the handwheel on top.

I suspect the top slide can be mounted on it using the curved slots , or perhaps a machine vice.

It all looks rather over-size for the ML2.

Neil

Yes it looks like a rather nicely homemade vertical slide. The T bolts would fit in the T slots on the cross slide, once the topslide was removed.

Whatever was used to hold teh work would bolt on the other round flange with the two curved bolt slots in it.

Possibly a three or four jaw chuck of some sort. Or a small vice with two hold-down bolts which could then be swivelled from a vertical to horizontal position. Or even a Myffrod dividing head looks like it could bolt on there, it used two hold down bolts and attached to the standard Myfrod vertical slide.

Is there anything in the box of bits you have that looks like it has two bolts or bolt holes that might line up with those two curved slots?

So it's homemade...that'll be why I've never been able to find anything similar on google lol. I'll have a look tomorrow to see if there's anything that might bolt to it but as far as I can remember the lathe came with a 3 jaw and 4 jaw self centreing chucks, a 4 jaw independant chuck and a 6-7 inch back plate but I'll make sure there isn't anything else I've overlooked.

I seriously think it's a match for the top slide, but I can't think why that would be useful.

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Maybe if there was a toopost-mounted drilling/milling or grinding spindle, and a watchmaker's style overhead drive ?

MichaelG.

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P.S. ... I would recommend re-engineering those raising blocks !!

Looks jolly interesting and missing a part to me as it looks likes something rotated on the side of it . I would imaging its made to go on your saddle have you tried removing tool holder to see if it fits?

Martin