Fixing the Amolco Milling Machine to a Myford Super 7

[ediblehamster]

I'm looking for some help with mounting my Amolco Milling machine on my Myford Super 7.

I've just purchased an Amolco milling machine for my Myford Super 7 Lathe. However the T-nuts / Fixing plates are missing,

Can anyone help with some pictures of what the standard plates look like , or better still share some drawings so I can make some? .. or have any to sell?

Thanks In advance

[uuu]

There's this picture on the Lathes.co.uk website, that might help: www.lathes.co.uk/amolco/img2.jpg

Wilf

[ediblehamster]

Thanks Wilf, those are the ones!

If I could get some dimensions that would help greatly. I've also seen some that are threaded (no nuts) with that chamfer to make it easier to fit.

Is there anyone out there with the dims?

Thanks

Jeremy

[uuu]

I've got the very part you're looking for - but can I find it? No.

You see I have a fixed steady, which clamps to the lathe bed in exactly the same way, with one fixing instead of two. I bet the nuts/plates are the same.

If no one else comes up with the answer before Wednesday, I will be visiting John at the Pump House, so can take a look at his one.

Wilf

[uuu]

OK - here's the plate on the bottom of John's fixed steady:

20231115_190844 by Wilf, on Flickr

It starts with a rectangle 1.765" long, 1.250" wide and 0.375" thick. Two corners are truncated from the mid-point of the short side, so the longer edge measures 1.555". The holding bolt is 3/8" BSF, hard screwed to the plate, so you can control its orientation from above.

Hope that helps.

Wilf

[uuu]

Perhaps not quite the mid-point. But what you're wanting is just enough taken off the rectangle so it will swivel within the space within the lathe bed.

If I remember right, my currently-mislaid one was prettier - with a curved cut-off. And with a pocket in the bottom to take the foot of a standard Myford tee-slot bolt, so not threaded. But functionally exactly the same.

Wilf

[ediblehamster]

Thanks Wilf

The pics and dims are just what I was looking for.....Really appreciate you help on this - fantastic!

btw....Pump House? Where in the world?

[uuu]

Ah yes. A bit of Isle of Wight background. I'll not go back into the Arthur Grimmett injectors days, Julian is better at telling that tale - but my friend John got a reputation for making pumps - hand and axle pumps etc. We were making one this week. So he became John the Pump, to distinguish him from Little John and any other Johns that were around. For many years he's opened his workshop one evening each week for chaps to gather and help each other out. And drink tea - beer afterwards. So the workshop became the Pump House. Simples.

Many fascinating things have been made and mended at the Pump House. Parts for a Spitfire. For the Docklands Light Railway. British Aerospace! Honda! Amazing what you can do with a Myford if you know what you're doing.

There are fewer of us now than in times past. Normally two, but three this week.

Wilf

[ediblehamster]

Ooh, parts for a Spitfire...Very interesting indeed. I'm going to need some of those. I know this is getting off topic, but I'm really interested to know for a little (big) project I have...

Perhaps this is a discussion to take off-line?

[SteveW]

Just a thought but what about looking at how the tailstock is secured and following that.

Also, currently suffering from a recollection of having a manual for one of these things or similar. Should I start looking if only to dispel this recurring memory.