Hello everybody! I am new to the site and forum and must admit that i
is knowledge about lathes and other tools that attracted me rather tha modelling. I am working on slightly bigger scale - mostly with bikes an other two-wheelers, but always wanted to build model steam boats. May b now I will. I hope that my mechanical engineer education will help me. Here comes question. Recently I bought (ultra cheap, 100 euros) Myford lathe - rare find i Belgium, where I live. To be honest - I have looked everywhere and I think it is ML7B - ver long bed, extended corsslide, in perfect order. It is definitely no Super 7. Serial number starts with KSL, then long number (consisten with Myford serials) and then M. Unfortunately it is missing some parts - tailstock, topslide. I managed to buy tailstock off eBay, but I think I've done big mistak as I just bought (off eBay, cheaply) topslide assembly before realizin it is from Super 7, but old-ish one. Gurus of metalworking - may be you can help me...will I ever be able t fit Super 7 topslide on ML7B? I bought it together with complete Super crosslide, but crosslide is in messy state. If I can not fit topslide does it make sense to buy "clean" Super 7 crosslide and replace m crosslide with Super 7 one and fit Super 7 topslide? I do not know ho that part of topslide that bolted to crosslide called - shall I jus look for that part from ML7 and fit Super 7 topslide I bough to it? My apologies if this is wrong place to ask - it's just every time search in Google I find many Myford-related topics here :
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