Myford Super 7 Lathe Serial Numbers
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Myford Capstan & Special Lathesemail:Special Special and Capstan Lathes'High-swing', ML7 Capstan, ML5, ML6, & OthersA rare survivor - Tri-Leva equipped Myford ML7 'High-swing' lathe from the early 1950s1951 Myford ML7 'High-swing' lathe of about 6' centre height. Made to special order during the 1950s, these lathes were used by the brake and clutch lining firm of Ferodo Ltd.
(of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire), to equip their motor and motorcycle-racing service vans. In the days just before the introduction of discs, drum brakes had grown to enormous sizes and a lathe was required which, while needing to be of only relatively light construction, had to be able to turn large diameters. A full-sized lathe would not only have been unnecessary, but also just too unwieldy and heavy to transport.Although suggestions have been made that the lathe was designed for turning brake drums it is more likely that the large faceplate carried jigs to hold brake shoes and clutch plates and so enable them to be turned true after being relined. Although the headstock was raised by using a simple distance piece, the tailstock base was a special and rather well-designed casting. The cross slide, its end bracket and the zeroing micrometer dial were of the 'Super 7' type used on long-bed ML7s and the (Super 7) top slide sat on a neatly-cast hollow block that brought it out to a position where the cutting tool could be made to reach the outer area of the faceplate.
The changewheel drive to the leadscrew was provided with a longer banjo arm and fabricated inner and outer covers were made to suit. Although tentative plans to market the lathe were apparently made, nothing further was heard of the idea.At least one standard centre height Super 7B with a capacity of was also made - and last reported to be in the north of England in the late 1980sHigh-swing fitted with its giant faceplateThe necessarily very tall changewheel cover of the 'High Swing'A rather neglected High Swing Tri-Leva missing its leadscrew, hanger bearings, changewheel banjo and tumble-reverse mechanism.
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The top-slide raiser block is fitted back-to-frontThe High-swing being used to machine a set of relined brake shoesSo beautifully made and finished that it could be mistaken for a Swiss product, the Myford ' hydraulic copying lathe was frequently bought by colleges to demonstrate production machining methods. They occasionally appear for sale and it is possible, given some effort, to convert them into an effective centre lathe.Myford C7 Capstan.
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