ML 10 Riser blocks

Hi

Can anyone here tell me the dimensions of the factory made riser blocks for the Myford ML10 lathe please, thanks.

RDG were selling them off cheaply, a little while ago, might be worth checking to see if they have any left. I have one and will need to dig it out for dimensions. Might be a day or so before I can locate it.

Andrew.

Do they have to be genuine Myford? A couple of metal plates of the same thickness with some fixing holes in them would work, as thick as you like, to get the lathe at a comfortable height.

Ambiguity warning:

Single riser block for ML10 **LINK** https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351479310854

does one job

A pair of riser blocks does another

MichaelG.

Thanks guys I only want a rough dimension of the height realy as Old Mart says then I will make a couple from plate.

cheers Colin.

If you want the height of the 2 riser blocks to lift up the lathe, then I cannot help.

Andrew.

Colin, As Michael rightly points out it depends on which riser block you want ? Assuming its the pair to raise the machine up from the bench here is a link to an old ebay sale, now finished but the photo's have a ruler shown so you could probably with some carful proportional estimates arrive at the dimensions needed, hole spacing excepted but this can be taken from your machine -- hope this helps a little

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Myford-ML10-lathe-rising-blocks-/185815558101?mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050&nma=true&si=0r%252BtFfD5xYl6M2ZWQuBAvA5YN8o%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

John

edit -- PS I would have thought the height was of little importance ?  surely you can make them to whatever height suit you ?  But I have no knowledge of the ML10 !

Edited By JohnF on 02/04/2023 11:09:49

Thanks for posting that, John … I don’t recall ever seeing them ‘naked’ before

A surprisingly complex/elegant casting for something that does such a mundane job

… Let’s call it an example of Beeston’s pride in the machines

MichaelG.

I have an ML10 on genuine blocks and they are 1 1/2" high.

Riser blocks have two common purposes, to get the height to a comfortable user position, of great value as you get older, and it makes cleaning up the swarf underneath easier. Thats why you might have to make special ones. We raised the 12 x 24 Atlas up on 40 mm thick aluminium at the headstock end so that "leveling" screw adjustment could be used at the tailstock end. At the museum, we lifted the whole 3/4 ton Smart & Brown model A up with the forklift and put a 45mm thick wood frame under the base to ease my old back.

In the past, I have made riser blocks from RHS and used studs with lots of nuts (Below and inside to secure riser block to bench; within and above to secure the studding to the RHS and then above and below the lathe feet )

This makes adjustments to remove twist from the bed easier.

Howard

Thanks for all the information chaps very much appreciated.

Colin