My New Project... Setting up my new Myford Super7 Mk1

So as you may have seen, I purchased a Myford Super7 Mk1 last weekend, in Wales, and imported it to Ireland where I live.

This was done in my tiny little Ford Fiesta, which handled the Lathe and extras very well, after an admirable packing job.

Now the lathe is home, (in an albeit temporary location in my living room) and it needs setting up to make it true and usable. (It also doesn't help that I left a bag of bits with the vendor!!!)

Anyway, I'll be uploading some photos of the lathe at the vendors, then the journey home, and setup and where it's at now...

Image post coming up shortly...

Del

Managed to upload some pics...

Now it's in my living room and i'm reassembling it.

Progress so far...

I connected up the electrics last night, and will be putting on the drive belts tonight!!

One questions I do have is that I think the vendor swapped out a chuck before it was sold. The chuck seems to have a lot of wiggle when tightened on a piece of bar, and also, it seems to have a high/low spot between the backplate and the chuck, causing it to wobble when it rotates.

The Chuck backplate is hard up against the mount. I checked the mount and it turns true, so the problem is between the backplate and the chuck. I'll do some more investigation tonight. I am taking a lot of hints from this thread...
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Hoping I can see if I can resolve it sooner rather than later.

Looks a nice example!

Alan

Fine looking lathe you have there! Enough S7 expertise here to help you (and me) on your way. If you need a fixed steady let me know.

Mark

Duplicate post, apologies. 

Edited By Mark Gould 1 on 02/08/2019 00:37:00

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That's a very impressive loading of a Fiesta !!

... My back hurts just looking at it

MichaelG.

Must have been even trickier getting it to the car on that bike.

Seriously though it looks a nice machine.