Mystery item Myford ML 7 purchase

Myford ML 7 mystery part ?

does anyone know what this is....came with a load of bits when recently aquried a 1956 Myford ML7

looks like some sort of indexing device but cant see anything in old catalogues for Myford parts.

thanks

Matt

I don't recognise it as a Myford part ... but it looks useful

Presumably the item 'up the spout' is in the process of being manufactured

MichaelG.

That beige is unusual for machine-tools but rings a vague bell with me - only for the life of me I can't recall which make of machine-tool I saw it on.

It might be part of a saddle-stop for some non-Myford machine, so with six divisions possibly a capstan lathe or a 6-station turret-drill; but that would not account for what appears to be a clamping-slot and screw; and I would expect a handle rather than spanner-hexagon on the screw on something you would need to re-set frequently and quickly.

A pity the photos don't include a rule of other scale, but estimating from the knurled handle, it does seem to need the spindle moving an appreciable axial distance to index it.

Nor do we know if it has been adapted, and how, to its last use. The remains of two very different colours suggest to me that it was fitted to some new home then the visible area was painted to match.

The parts sticking out of the "front" might be work-pieces still in place, or part of its own function.

It could have originally been part of some highly-specialised machine, perhaps not even for cutting metal but some task like winding electrical coils; but has been wandering around ever since as something that might come in handy!

AH! I have reminded myself....

Now I recall seeing that yellowish-beige on an old coil-winding machine, though I do not know the make. So this object might have been from the same stable. Part of an armature-winder for small motors, maybe? .

Some form of indexing device off a Tool & Cutter grinder ?

The colour is very similar to that used on some Pultra lathes

The earliest Myford ML8 wood turning lathes were painted cream.

My guess would be its off an old tool and cutter grinder. Before insert tooling every machine shop had at least one.

Hopper, my thoughts as well. The knurled part enables the spindle to be moved while stilll indexed over a short distance, giving 2,3 and 6 divisions. However, holding anything on the castellated end doesn’t seem easy. It would have to be used on straight cutters

ah on taking another look, is the spindle hollow?  The castellated bit could then be removed.  It has 6 grooves in it and some seem to have  what looks like over cutting into the spindle  and some are damaged on the back.

Edited By Zan on 25/08/2020 11:06:59

It might be a grostling iron...

(Picks up fractured knee caps, replaces lug in lug'ole and exits through little hole in middle of record.)

George B.

Sorry, double posting (like the wrestlers do)

G.

Edited By Georgineer on 25/08/2020 13:22:55

I've no idea what the OPs mystery Myford (?) item is, but I'm reminded of another s/h ML7 that came with an attachment for boring out car-engine big-ends after re-metalling. It was a genuine Myford accessory, I've not seen another one since.