Chip Tray for Myford Super 7

Been looking around and came across a chip guard for the saddle On Super7's. Question is Hemmingway do a specific item does anyone know if it fits machine from 2000up

Or is there another make outhere looked on Myford sight it was not an Accessorie I could find

Can't give you a proper answer I'm afraid

I think a tray might serve very well if you cut a section out to allow it to go round the lathe mount under the chuck.

Yes, it does, I have one on my Connoisseur.

Chris J, please explain what you mean by a cut out "to go round the lathe mount" under the chuck? The Hemmingway item will pass under a 4" (100mm) chuck as intended.

I have a chip "deflector" on my Super 7. It is cut and moulded from a large plasic milk container. There is a slot in the centre, the edges of which are moulded downward with heat, to fit in the gap between the bed shears. It is held in place by a screw, spring and a piece a plate screwed into the tapped hole intended for the travelling steady. It is also moulded to be biased downwards, so the when the gap in the bed is reached, it folds down into the gap. I have rarely contacted the chuck with it, but if I do no harm is done. In use the chips from the tool fall harmlessly into the gully running down the centre of the bed. It is most efective with iron and brass, which are the worst for finding their way under the saddle. It is not effective with curly steel swarf, but this is too large to get where it shouldn't anyway.

Excuse the mess but I'm in the middle of something.

I have pulled the try out a bit (to the right) to make it clearer.

Hope this ok, I'm having trouble uploading to my album.

Greetings Bob,

A friend at work gave me a piece of butyl rubber left over from his new fish pond liner. I cut it to size and clamped it with a length of 10mm aluminium angle to the saddle against the left hand side of the cross slide on my ML7 using the tapped hole for the travelling steady.

With the saddle in the position shown in Chris J's photo the rubber just overhangs the shears at the chuck end. It is very strong and pliable and extends forward to just cover the leadscrew. When the saddle gets close to the chuck, it is heavy and soft enough to drop into the bed gap.

So far, after nearly 3 years of abuse from oils and hot swarf, it is slightly wrinkled but still doing the job of keeping the shears clean.

Gordon.

Chris J, Ah you have a means of collecting the swarf from the drip tray, everyone else is talking about protecting the shears from falling swarf

Yes

I'm always out of step !!