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Marv, You could always be dragged screaming and kicking into the 20th Century and port them to windows :big: John S.

Unified will not work, after the debacle of WWII America tried to force a change on the world with screw threads, mainly fuelled by the automotive industry that at that time owned or had fingers in most pies. The UK, Europe and I think Australia were forced to adopt UN threads, as the ties got...

Interesting how the prices were arrived at. Some of the single cylinder stationary models made far more than complete loco's or traction engines which take far more work and time. The highest priced Burrell fetched as much as a kit from some of the suppliers but had far more work attached. A...

Got a nitrogen bottle haven't you ? John S.

The reason behind this is capitalism, note no Z, ;) We had to make the change to metric in the 1970 by law, this included things like tools, scales etc being changed over BUT the cost was borne by the owners / users. Because a change from miles to Km and even a swap to RH drive to match Europe...

Had another one but lost the pic. It went 8", 9" 11" 10" 12" Branded rule as well, not an import. John S.

Are you sure Marv ? :o John S.

Only the BBC and dressmakers use cm, every one else uses mm up to 1,000 then it's metres. Fractions are Ok but in 60 odd years of being around machine tools i have never seen a dial in fractions. In imperial you have two measurements 31/64" is equal to 0.4844. Possibly a drawing says 31/64"...

This is what we fit on the X3 and the SX3 on the X and Y, 312 oz in direct driving a 4mm pitch screw. That square block contains two angular contact bearings and the oldham coupling. This is the Z mount that bolts onto the existing bottom bearing block, which also has twin angular contacts...

Blogs, That seems to be the going price on a Myford screwcutting box, bear in mind they are over a thousand pounds new. then add into this it can't do metric threads so you need a complete new quadrant and set of gears. Whilst this is set up you loose the fine feed and it takes longer to swap...

Definitely from the same factory. John S.

So you pay top dollar for a obscure model machine, then wait 10 years to find a part that you may have to pay 1/2 the machine price to obtain? Sorry not for me, when there are other machines just as universal with more chance of getting old parts. As an example look at the Tom Senior mill, how...

In a word NO ;D It's very convoluted, Weiss is a trading company and they sub con to two contractors, these same contractors also sub con to Optimim but Optimum are not strictly a trading house as they do manufacture some parts. Where it gets sticky is that 'probably' the directors of the sub...

No quill feed................ John S.

I was under the impression it is Weiss however Syil is saying that Weiss is a trading company. I can't truthfully comment so won't, other than to say I'd trust Syil as far as I could throw them, they spend far too much time on the web badmouthing everyone else instead of sorting their own...

Jesus ? you mean the elastic man. It says in the bible he tied his ass to a tree and walked into Jersulaem. John S.

Stefan, Doesn't the weight of the table want to drive down when there is no power to the Z stepper? John S.

Nice machine, seem well made but two points I am not happy with. One is the motor drive gear which is either brass or plastic and does shear easily. Second is the Z feed handle mounted at the top of the column which is tiring to use. John S.

Have you checked prices out on this material ? http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=1583095 £50 for a 100mm length of 15mm diameter, that's just under 5/8" x 42 for the cousins and about $85 John S.

When Myfords compiled the screw cutting charts for there new series of lathe, America and hence the furrin 13 tpi UNC thread range hadn't been discovered or invented. Don't let it worry you, many of the home grown American lathes can't thread this either which is probably a great source of...