Daniel Piotr | 20/04/2023 11:33:07 |
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Daniel |
Michael Gilligan | 20/04/2023 12:20:06 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | It may [at the right price] be worth buying … BUT, it looks like no Myford that I have ever seen. MichaelG. |
Clive Foster | 20/04/2023 12:46:44 |
3630 forum posts 128 photos | Daniel Home or, more likely, workshop made lathe. Parts carved from solid so builder had access to reasonably substantial machines but, judging by the tailstock, apparently no welding facilities. In many ways it looks to be a very decent job but the topside and tailstock look weak. Topside dovetail rails are screwed on. An effective old school way of making such when dovetail cutters or shaper aren't available. Fundamentally soundly engineered but the top plate looks very thin. Tailstock looks to be built up using angle for the main body which is weak without welded on bracings. Clive |
Jelly | 20/04/2023 13:14:58 |
![]() 474 forum posts 103 photos | I agree with Clive, it's definitely a workshop made machine. It looks like it's been built using some components from a Myford "Euro-Ten", which might be how the Myford name got attached to it, but it's easily ¾ home built parts. . If it's a reasonable price and will get you going now I wouldn't turn it down just because it's home built, but don't pay It looks to have an eccentric (in both sense of the words) mechanism to provide screw cutting feeds, which you would likely need to work out for yourself as I've never seen anything like it; or replace it with a banjo for change gears. |
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