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| Fergus OMore:
Fine, I go to the (err )blenders :doh: Somewhere I have a copy of the Myford S7B stuff but it seems no different to what you have already. Somewhere else is a copy on how to make a box. Interested? Cheers again Norman |
| Pete W.:
Hi there, again, Norman, If you mean how to make a QC gear-box, no thanks, I'm hoping the one I have will see me out! What I would like is an easy way to seal the filler cap on the original Beeston Myford oil gun. Mine has a disk of leather in the cap but it can't possibly seal on the edge of the 5 thou thick body of the oil gun. If there were a flange on the end of the body, it wouldn't be possible to assemble the 'innards'. I've toyed with the idea of making a drop-in metal disk with an O-ring groove round its outer edge but it's never yet got to the top of the 'to do' list. Somebody described the ML7 lubrication arrangements as a 'total loss system' and so it is, so my swarf tray is always swimming in oil. The front mandrel bearing emits oil that gets flung off from the chuck back-plate and paints a vertical stripe down the wall and the front of my workshop coat. I can put up with those - what I really don't like is trying to get oil into the oil nipples but, instead, getting a handful of oil from round the oil gun filler cap!!! :bang: :bang: :bang: The later Beeston Myford oil gun is better in that respect but needs to be parked in a spout-upwards position - I have some Terry tool clips to screw to the workshop wall to achieve that. I can use the later type gun on all the oil nipples except the one on the rear of the saddle. Because my lathe is close to the wall, only the early pattern gun will fit in the space! |
| Fergus OMore:
Good Morning Pete I'm afraid that it is going to be a bit of a ramble- but it gives how much that I know and just how little. The Myford oil can thing occupied much of contents of Model Engineer at one time- when? I cann't remember but a new oil can came on the scene. Again, I recall( vaguely) that some aspiring geyser removed the balls or the spring or reduced the back pressure on the nipples. Sounds clinically horrendous but there is food for thought. My oil can works- no leather or whatever- a bit of red card stuff. So the ramble continues( sorry) and some other geyser concocted a oil system from these garden small bore watering systems. If you remove the balls and springs( :lol:) it should work. Oddly, I'm a lazy guy and use a cheap -non Myford oil can and a bit of plastic to oil the parts that other oil cans cannot reachI Apologies to the lager advert) Loss of oil on a ML7? Cleeve did something about re=cycling it . It was one of his tight fisted but useful comments on the his ML7. You'll have to forgive yet again a ramble but I still have some of the ML7 Cleeve articles. Model Engineer forced us to destroy our postings but when Jim Early died- I got some- not all sent to me as a 'friend, brother and beneficiary' Ok- aplogies but an old man rambling in the hope that it might stir up a bit of thought Regards Norman |
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