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Evening Gents, Please help, what do you use as a cutting oil or compound & where do you get it from? I can't find much on old threads. I have read up on so many things lately in preparation for my ML4 install this weekend that now learning all about cutting oils & compounds at this late stage...

Evening Gents, I would highly recommend having both CO & CO2 alarms.. I don't like only CO alarms as the conditions are already dangerous by the time it goes off. I'd rather know before this that the air quality is far from ideal for decent combustion (& the ability to concentrate when using...

Ah !.. I get it now (I am so slow sometimes.. ).. you don't have to re-tension the belt when changing between pulleys as the belt radius (if that is the term to use) doesn't change. Mine has a cone pulley on the motor shaft & a tensioning pulley (jockey wheel ??) in between. I will have to...

No waffle & perfect sense.. so the countershaft pulleys are the same. (Well, I say perfect sense.. how the hell does 1:2 & 2:1 give different speeds if the pulleys are the same just on opposite sides?.. I will await the book or google it.) edit: derr.. I just worked it out - I should think...

Does your "interesting" mean the same as my "naff" by any chance ? Now I see the BRG version I am not so taken with mine but I like it nevertheless. Swarf - of course. Thanks

Hiya Rhyolith, That looks very smart in British racing green ..& very good photography too. I see that you have a different belt & pulley set-up. Mine has 1 belt with an adjustable pulley in-between machine & motor to adjust the belt tension. Are your pulleys on the plummer block the same size...

Hiya CC, there are 6-8 weirdly ground tools in that tray & I was going to visit our resident old genius CDT man upstairs (who has the Clarke lathe) to see what he recommends. He's bound to know all about Myfords (he teaches 6yr olds to weld, turn & make boats, engines, music etc). All advice...

Hiya Dickm, was that expensive in 1969 ? I suspect it wasn't that cheap. The handwheel was made up to replace the small handle on the very right end.. the seller made it for better control when turning in small increments.

Hiya Rodders, I am chuffed to bits ! my I love old tools, machines ... buildings, things & people (within reason) because they are great quality & stylish. I now know that if what I am doing on it isn't working then it's me - not it. I even like the paint (& nail varnish ?) job. I am a novice...

Well Gents.. here she is : What do you recon?

Well Gents, I am the owner of a late model ML4.. & so far I think it's a runner. The very nice & very knowledgeable man selling it says that it was his Dad's machine that he learnt on & has always been in the family. He now has an ex-school Boxford so needs the space - a great looking one that...

Hhhmm?? thanks Wildman.. I hate Ebaying but when needs must. I can only see a hulk-like Gromatic.. that is a whoppa. I would be sectioned by SWMBO if I brought that home.

Hello Cheshirechappie, A quick look on lathes UK link shows that there are no parts readily available (no real surprise there as it was made 1937-43 !)..but goes on to say that most are so badly worn as to be 'little better than a rotary file'. My optimism is waning a little.. but I love the...

Evening Gents, How about a Myford ML4, 70 yrs old, 1 careful hobbyist owner, face plates, chucks, lots of gears n stuff, £200 ? Anything more expensive is just an extravagance (for the time it'll be used)...but to waste £200 is never clever.. what d'you think? Togs

Gentlemen, thanks for all your help. I am glad I asked. So, it's British or European if I can find & afford one, the Axi' ones are Chinese but just might be ok, Chinese might be ok but probably not - double check 1st, avoid Clarke. The Axi engineering day is a very good suggestion. The 920...

Evening Gents, I am getting more into metalworking for both my workshop & furniture making & am toying with getting my 1st metalwork lathe & need your sage advice please. I have basic metalwork skills but almost none in turning metal. I am in danger of buying something more expensive than what...

Wow Hemsby, such detail & with clear pics too - you star ! ..I've never been more keen to go fettle a machine now. What do you shim with -paper, foil ??.. I don't have any metal as thin as I need other than my feeler gauges (if I can find them) but that'd be daft. Togs

Hiya Hemsby.. Thanks for all your help. I had wrote a reply to your emails only to delete it when I got distracted ..grr ! I see you have a much more appropriate clamp to hold the DTI than mine... I have tool envy again. Your method is much more simple than what I had thought up - measure in 2...

Saying to start from the underside I feel is a priceless bit of advice - ace ! ..I could mount the DTI to the stand with actuator/plunger (?) against the block & run the stand along the end of a clamped board lined up with the block ?? Where did you get your blades from please ? Miles are...