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John Hill:
John, you might have seen I asked on the Chester site about their vertical slide, have you seen one? 

Any comments?  Apart from the obvious ones like I should be saving up for a real mill. :med:

Everything else is available here but the only vertical slides I have seen been offered for sale have been old ones in on-line auctions.

The Artful Bodger.

bogstandard:
John,

There are two main issues you should be looking at when fitting one to our type of lathe.

The first, and major one is that because we don't have a slotted cross slide, the cross slide will need to be either drilled or machined to accept the vertical slide. Not a thing I would like to do. I have already asked the question about slots, but after having a good look at it while it was off, there isn't really enough meat on it to put a decent slot in there.

You cannot mount it where the topslide fits as that will not give you enough movement in the Y axis to get the full functionality and versatility of the vertical slide. You could make an extender plate, as I am doing with my ball turner, that utilises the topslide mounting bolts, and move the operating centre across by about 75mm to 100mm. It would need to be fairly substantial in it's thickness to take the stresses of cutting, say 12mm or thicker steel plate.

I have just been out to my shop and set up my plate to show you what I am on about. See attached pics. Mine is in ali because it will only be taking fine cuts. It still needs a cross slot putting in, to clear the ball oilers.

The other is that if you do get one, make sure it has a rotating base, it looks like the large one from Chester has some functionality in that department, but I can't tell for sure from the pic.

Here is the type you should be looking for, but unfortunately, they are out of stock. As you can see, it also has a slotted face for versatility. But because it is designed for a Myford, it might have imperial graduations. Maybe an email could clear up when they will be back in stock and what the dial graduations are in. But you would need to fit a vice as well. The Chester one has some sort of excuse for one already on theirs.

http://www.rdgtools.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2frdgtools%2eco%2euk%2f&WD=vertical%20slide&PN=MYFORD_LATHE_USERS_NEW1%2ehtml%23a007#a007

or

http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/cgi-local/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2echronos%2eltd%2euk%2facatalog%2findex%2ehtml%3fhttp%253A%2f%2fwww%2echronos%2eltd%2euk%2facatalog%2fcatalogbody%2ehtml%26CatalogBody&WD=vertical%20slide&PN=Myford_Lathe_Compatible_Acessories%2ehtml%23aSVMS#aSVMS


I hope this has helped you in some way

John

sbwhart:
John H

I Bought one of those vertical slides from RDG to suplement the milling on my 3 in 1:- the lathe bit was great, but the milling had a lot to be desired. the vertical slide did improve my milling but at the end of the day a proper mill is a lot better, easier to use and set up.

Having said that I think there would still be aplication wher the vertical slide would be usfull.

Cheers

Stew

John Hill:
Thanks for the advice guys.  It looks like the Chronos one for Myford at
http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/acatalog/Myford_Lathe_Compatible_Acessories.html would be the one, except that shipping would be 48 quid! :doh:

John, I suppose the cross slide has at least enough beef to allow drilling and tapping a few holes?

Meanwhile I have a rather crappy X/Y table  which I am considering mounting to the travel steady position which would give the basic, but non swiveling, function without involving the cross slide.  Then I think the X/Y table is really too crappy to even try. :scratch:

bogstandard:
John,

There is enough metal to drill and tap the top face, but that would be your decision not mine.


John

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