Myford Ml4

Hello Jyss

have a look here:

Hi Peter thanks for that but I found that befor and yes ver

intresting.Im more wonting hand book info gearing ect but Im ver pleased with your help thank.jys

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As Peter rightly informs, his lathes reference is important. Regarding gearing, the ML4 has a leadscrew which is compatible with the later 7 series. You buy 20DP gears and get on with it! If you want a manual, the stock answer is- you ain't going to get one. If you want spares and accessories, tough! You are going to have to make them yourself. If you want designs etc, then you might have to wait. One of the Forums is trying to get Martin Cleeve stuff on the net. If you are impatient, you are welcome to plough your way through endless Model Engineers dating back to 1955- or volunteer to assist to put this still valuable information onto the net.

This is not intended to be churlish. I am scanning articles from here in England out to Australia and comments are coming in from California. It is as complicated as that. With luck, the other articles on restoring a ML4 will have to be unearthed and so on.

Norman

jyss wrote:

keep an eye on the industrial tools section of e-bay, parts d

occaisionally come up.even complete lathes appear, if you could get a incomplete one you could canibalise it for spares

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Hi bolmas I thank you very much for the info on the ML4 I live in the u

and find it very hard to find any thing on it but the leadscrew info wa handy its a lovely littal lathe and I intent makeing meny handy part for it.thanks again you can never get to much info on something lik this.thanks once more.jys

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I have a scanned copy of the user manual that came with an ML4 in .pd

format, if you require it please contact me

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Whilst I don't have a ML4, am currently engaged in trying to get lathe information which could be lost onto the Internet. Currently, I have most of Engineering in Miniature articles belonging to the late Kenneth C Hart( aka Martin Cleeve) scanned and I believe are on or ready to go.

Therefore, I would be pleased to pass it on- and thank you for your fine gesture.

Norman

upsil> I have a scanned copy of the user manual that came with an ML4 in .pdf

Thank you norman any info at all is very handy.jys

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ML4 in .pdf

Hi Im a new member and I also have a Myford ML4 lathe. Is there any chance you could let me have a copy of the manual you mention please. Cheers Jez1965

Hi upsilon sorry to jump on the band wagon, would it be possible to e-mail me a copy of the ML4 manual Thanks

How do you jump on a band wagon two years after it's gone past you?

:-|

Mark Rand RTFM

You wait for the band to reform after they have run out of money.....

Join a web feed to the archives, and then run *really fast* before jumping...

Dave

If you prefer a cheap imitation you could always wait for a tribute band to form.

Cliff Coggin.

I picked up this thread again.

The manual on the ML4 disappeared with the demise of a Myford forum. The 'Cleeve' stuff which went onto the net was removed because of copyright problems and a vicious threat of litigation by Model Engineer. Fairly recently I sent quite a bit of other ML4 stuff to readers in Model Engineering Clearing House about feed screw replacement.

Ah well, that's show biz

Norman

The ML4 material re-appeared in the files section of the new Myford forum:

The question which seems to come up repeatedly to my ancient and septic mind is whether anyone actually completes the restoration of ancient tooling after all this effort of going to print.

Do they expire or simply offload their problem onto someone else?

Regards

Norman

Given what's just happened to Yahoo groups I'm doubtful if it will be much seen.

Richard

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