Tyzacks & Sons Lathe

John ,

Sorry I cant help here but ,

I find it interesting ,I didn't know that Tyzack & Sons made lathes . I collect old wood working tools ,amoung other things, and I have a few Tyzack hand saws .

Kevin B. Katherine Northern Territory

Not listed at this link either

Look on the lathe site under Zyto.

Roy

Damn; I knew that, but didn't have the sense to point it out.

BugBear

Don't bother looking for a Zyto manual - I owned a Zyto (briefly!) and the manual was never written. The most I managed to find was the changewheel chart, which I took a scan of before I sold the lathe on - email me offline if you want me to send you a copy of the JPG.

There were one or two articles published in ME on improvements to the Zyto (and boy, did it need them - the rack and pinion sadle traverse was interesting as it works bass ackwards - crank clockwise and the saddle heads for the chick! Way too exciting.). I was originally planning to turn it into a decent lathe, but decided that life was too short and that I would be better off starting with something reasonable in the first place.

Regards, Tony

I bought my Zyto 3 and an eigth from the Estate of Dr Clifford Arthur who had built Gauge 1 loco's on it. He was a relative of James Watt which speaks volumes! I wrote up to Myford because quite a lot is ML2, 3 or 4 and the changewheels and the vertical slide are 'Myford'. In the absence of a manual- people were not expected to need manuals- the best reference is to go back through the old Model Engineers and get out out the 'Martin Cleeve' articles.

I still have the vice and vertical slide. Sadly, my efforts to get the Cleeve articles onto the net were 'screwed up' by Magicalia. I still have the little ML manual on file- if it helps Cheers

Norman

It was a male saddle then?

Peter

That should have read "chuck", chuck.

Regards, Tony

Hey, did you know that in Australia, chicks are called chucks ? So, you could chuck us a chick, as long as it is a 3 jaw chick chuck ! Cheers to all. Brad.

I thought they were 'chooks'.

Henry

Stick it on the barbie?

Regards, Tony

Or even...wait for it...chook it on the barbie...

Regards, Tony

OK, doll! Some chicken , some neck?

Norm