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MEW   Issue 118 Fitting a Table Drive to the Wabeco mill. Full construction notes, including drawings.

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MEW   Issue 119 Electronic circuits and construction for driving a stepper table drive on the Wabeco mill.

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MEW   Issue  128 Full description as to how the author made “Myford Style” Collets in the Workshop.

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MEW   Issue  133 A Boring Solution to Spherical Turning. Ball turning in the lathe using a boring head.

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MEW   Issue  138 Draw Plus a “Rich Man’s” CAD.  Draw Plus for creating engineering drawings.

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MEW   Issue  149 Making a Pillar Tool Without Castings.  How to make a pillar tool out of steam pipe fittings.

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MEW   Issue  159 How to Make a Grinding Head. How I made a “Quorn” type grinding head without castings.

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MEW Issue 172  Making a toolpost holder for a Dremel and using bolts to make a lantern chuck.

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MEW Issue 172  “Swarf Stick” Make a magnetic swarf remover with automatic release.

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MEW   Issue  181 Lathe DRO  Fitting a compact digital readout to smaller lathes such as the Myford ML7

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MEW   Issue  182  Aligning tool for a machine vice  Making a tool to quicly align a machine vice

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MEW   Issue  184 Care and Lubrication of Myford Series 7 Lathes. Lubrication points on this lathe.

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MEW Issue 191  Converting a height gauge to digital readout.

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ME Issue  4341 Making a Pretty Mandrel Handle For The Myford ML7 Lathe

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ME Issue  4342 Wabeco DRO

ME Issue  4367 Storage - Storing Workshop Items

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ME Issue  4404 Quick Tool Rack

ME Issue  4429 Spoked Wheels

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Articles Originally Written for Myford Nottingham


Myford  Rear Tool Post

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Myford  Sensitive Drill

Myford  Keats Angle Plate - Using a Keats angle plate for those awkward jobs

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Myford  Parting Blade

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Myford  Die Holders

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Myford  Metric Conversion - How to cut Metric threads on a Myford ML7

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