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thanks everyone :) Seems much likely that there e-mail is down, I will try and give them a phone call. Of cause I did not intend to violate any copyrights, buying an original plan second hand is though still fully legal ! @Tom: I will have a look on your thread, thabks for the hint ! :)...

Hi, for quite a while I try to get my hands on the corliss engine plans from http://www.colespowermodels.com but they don't seem to be interested in doing business with me or business at all :( I just can't get any reaction from them at all. Is anyone here able to sell me the plans second...

Hi Eddie, don't worry, everyone has to start at a point ;) For the toolpost you should try to find someone with a similar lathe and have a look at the setup. The mercedes of toolpost is the swiss made 'multifix' which really restores the tool within thou after a toolchange. But also cheap...

Hi Eddie, reverse parting of is not a must ! A lot of people are just happy with parting tools mounted the right way. If the toolholder on the pic is the one you use you should rather think about a quickchange toolholder with a couple of inserts to keep some tools ready and on the correct...

Hi, at least your cross slide is not prepared for a rear tool post. You would need some t-slots ore anything to fix a toolpost with. You still can turn the parting tool upside down and use the regular tool post if you are able to put the chuck rotation in reverse sense ... cheers christoph

Hi Eddie, no need for changes at all. You should be able to put the reversed tool on the correct hight of course so maybe you need to construct one special holder for your regular toolpost to achieve that ... cheers christoph

Hi Eddie, mounting upside down is a good idea for parting or grooving tools because: The chips fall out of the groove thanks to gravity and can not interfere in any way with your cutting. The setup gets more rigid because the counter-cutting-force (Sorry for my english, hope you get what I...

Hi Whitehorse, you don't necessarily need to spend 3.000$ - well at least not at once ... Before buying some tools you should make up your mind what kind of work you want to do in which scale. It makes quite a difference if you are in clocks or motorbikes ;) Generally very good used lathes...

Hi, so, here is my contribution to this murderthread, nothing too exciting though I'm afraid :( My first one was a proxxon pd 360, a popular brand for small precision lathes in germany. Followed by a myford super 7 with extra long bed (makes a good rest for the tailstock ;) ) cheers christoph

Hi, thanks for all the positive input ! :) Somebody asked me already if I could sell him the machine he would put it up in his living room ;) I dismounted the head in the meantime and discovered how the quill retaining mechanism (which is absent at the moment) is supposed to work. It's...

Hi Mark, thanks for the approval, I'm quite lucky with my new baby though I did not do any serious work on it till now. As it was looking quite oldfashioned on e-bay it did not attract many bidders so it was a real bargain indeed I got it more or less for the price of the vise that came with it...

Hi skyline, I fully agree on the spare parts situation for the myford lathe, I keep looking for same stuff for my super 7 on ebay.co.uk too but that's not urgent ;) For the milling machine, it seems the threads are all metric and in the usual sizes. Plus, someone did a decent paint job on the...

Link is dead, can now bee senn with other building galeries on the HP of Gerald himself: http://www.wworkshop.net/Home_Page_/Home_Page.html cheers christoph

Hi, haven't posted anything of technical interest for a loooong time - sorry for that. I have a valid excuse though, bought some ground and had a company building a house on it. I had to build the workshop/garden shed combination myself for money reasons. Took me a year and a half from buying...

Hi, being the site-admin of dampfforum.info I just want to state that there are no access limits for the site, rules are a bit more strict than here, like no nicknames, only 'real' avatars, correct post address. In the past we lost some very valuable highly gifted model engineers and with them...

Hi, just stumbled upon the manual for your machine: http://www.mediafire.com/?75gzmiyysdi cheers christoph

Hey, nice machine, for a nice price ! Surely it had a hard life before but that should not matter to much. Before you turn it on you should also get the 'lubrication' plan for this type of myford, it looks like it was missing some oil for quite a while. Most likely some myford owner from this...

wow, you have a good connection to santa (?) VERY COOL MACHINE could it posssibly be a preproduction model for a bigger machine, I like the revolving oilers on the rod bearing - supercool !!!!

Hi, if you are lazy and don't mind things getting a bit larger you can also assume 1" to be 32 mm the advantage is obvious I think ;) cheers christoph

Hi, go for the ML7 the other ones are more or less wrecked and need a lot of investment in form of money and experienced workmanship to get them back into working condition. As a beginner in metal working you will have enough doubts and problems operating the thing even when it is in 'normal'...