• Since my last posting a few things have changed, or rather advanced! I have moved everything downstairs to the cellar, out of the either boiling or freezing covered balcony and put it on its cabinet and wired up that whole thing with the inverter. To run it properly (or rather in a fasion that makes settings ‘repeatable’), I only need a suitable rev counter – an easy job, I hope :).

Apart from that, I have acquired a few more accessories! Since Myford’s are largely shunned in Germany as overpriced and useless toys – or merely as personal jewellery instead of anything that ‘proper’ work can be done on – parts are difficult to come by and sometimes ludicrously expensive, similar to American prices…

HLuckily, there are other portals and channels, especially in the U.K. and in the Netherlands, where it is possible, for a published, steady price, to get spares and new bits.

I was lucky enough to find a group on Facebook that is only interested in everything Myford. Lots of questions, answers, tips and tricks. Now and again a few sales as well of interesting stuff at reasonable prices.

So, this is where I got some goodies that I was looking for:

A Myford dividing head, pictured here as advertised, complete with all four disks and the very useful/necessary riser. The spindle has some rust, but it all works very nicely now after a good clean-up 🙂

A Myford cutting off slide (with only one tool holder) photo to follow…

A Myford taper cutting attachment. In the post the plexiglass ‘sight’ was unfortunately broken, but I made up a new one 🙂

Here you can see both the dividing setup on the left and the taper-turning attachment in the right (not yet cleaned up to any extent). Also my ‘spare’, standard-length lathe-bed in case I have space restrictions in the future, upon which my toolmakers chest of drawers rests.
A very useful addition to any workshop, but having one, I soon realised that I need probably at least two more to hide all my crap in… 🙂 The photos below should clarify that last statement!

I also managed to find the correct collets for my lever-operated chuck setup – particularly pleased with that, as I thought that I would never find them!

What is a full set, one asks? These are Metric, which are difficult/almost impossible/very expensive to obtain for or from Myford, so that is one bonus. Secondly, they are pulled down on a long thread to tighten, which gives them a much larger tolerance for gripping, so this set, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 not only covers those sizes but obviates the necessity for the half sizes in between… WHICH, with a bit of sensible application will also cover a large range of imperial sizes, too.
They work by being tightened very loosely by hand and the lever then being applied to grip properly. Once set, one doesn’t have to readjust in between unless you change sizes of  the material or cutter.

Here also a quick pic of the cabinet contents – or at least what you can see of them 😉

My last post will show the other bits that are not visible here… Oh yes, the 5” independent four-jaw is also relatively new, as is the fixed steady 🙂