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| vtsteam:
Parvum, maybe you'll get some ideas from the boring table I did here? http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,8900.25.html |
| bertie_bassett:
Personally id try an ipa solvent first to get the worst off then id consider putting it in the dishwasher ( when shwmbo isn't around) The heat from the dishwasher shouldn't cause any damage and the jets would hopefully cleaan the crack right out. There may be a risk of the parts breaking off, but if thats the case, they would have failed in use anyway |
| RussellT:
Back to your original question - will an ML7 cross slide fit? Are there any Myford owners near you? Replacement with an ML7 cross slide would be easier and a much more satisfactory long term solution. If you've got it in bits you can take the bits to a Myford owner - no need to borrow bits. I'm not a Myford owner - can anyone else help? Russell |
| parvum:
Hi vtsteam, Thanks for your link, it was a fascinating vid, but your skills are way in advance of mine, but thanks for taking the trouble to try and enlighten me. Thank you both bertie basset and RusselT. I think I had better try the replacement route as this lathe seems to have been a Myford clone, I'm still at the parts swapping stage tapping loose threads and turning either too big or too small are about my limit right now, I usually butcher wood, hand held tooling allows for more leeway. Thanks again to you all for the trouble you have taken. regards Paul |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: RussellT on April 05, 2015, 04:49:31 AM ---Back to your original question - will an ML7 cross slide fit? Are there any Myford owners near you? Replacement with an ML7 cross slide would be easier and a much more satisfactory long term solution. If you've got it in bits you can take the bits to a Myford owner - no need to borrow bits. I'm not a Myford owner - can anyone else help? Russell --- End quote --- Actually there are ( to my knowledge)- TWO ML7 cross-slides. One is the standard short one and the other is longer. However, there are (at least) two more. One is on the Super7 and the other on the '10' To confuse further there are TWO more. One is the fixed vertical slide one and the other one goes on the remaining pivotting slide :doh: You clearer now? Now this cracked ML7 tee slot thing is nothing new. Martin Cleeve- author of Screwcutting in the Lathe cracked his and if you look carefully at what is on the front cover his is NONE of the foregoing, it is a Myford Special and isn't cast iron. It is steel. However, he extended a slide and he mended his cracked one and he fabricated another. I've lost count.-forgive me. All that I would suggest is that you measure YOUR broken slide- width and let us know the length involved. I have a long ML7 top, A Super 7 one and a fixed 'funny' because it probably came from a Zyto but seems to have all the markings of one from a ML7. PM me, if this makes a slight amount of help. :wack: Norman |
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