DIY Surface Plate for lathe slideways?

[brightspark]

The hardened ones were painted a cream colour in the gaps I think.

mines cream between the bed but its not hardened its about 52 years old

 

[mtt.tr]

mines cream between the bed but its not hardened its about 52 years old

reading this without the quote is, alarming to say the least

 

[the artfull-codger]

mines cream between the bed but its not hardened its about 52 years old

Mine is also about the same age & cream between the bed shears & also not hardened.prob got a lob lot of cream paint!!

 

[Beanwood]

My new Boxford has cream paint in the gaps - does that mean hardened ways?

 

[Pete.]

My new Boxford has cream paint in the gaps - does that mean hardened ways?

Boxford have nothing to do with Myford.

I had read someplce about them painting the hardened beds with cream paint. Perhaps I was mistaken, or that person was.

 

[Beanwood]

Boxford have nothing to do with Myford.

I had read someplce about them painting the hardened beds with cream paint. Perhaps I was mistaken, or that person was.

I just thought it odd there was a 'cream paint' similarity, and wondered if there was some unwritten standard...

 

[Chris152]

Save you many many hours of your life , won't get an offer of help like that every day

Stu

There's two aspects to this - first, our carriage gets tighter toward the far end of the ways and it'd be good to have it sorted; second, we're trying to learn all we can about the engineering side of things, alongside learning to work on classic cars (well, my lad is, I'm just the bank and gofer ). Combined with a limited budget, learning to do things ourselves is good - tho visiting and seeing a professional do the job would be brilliant learning for him.

 

[Stupoty]

There's two aspects to this - first, our carriage gets tighter toward the far end of the ways and it'd be good to have it sorted; second, we're trying to learn all we can about the engineering side of things, alongside learning to work on classic cars (well, my lad is, I'm just the bank and gofer ). Combined with a limited budget, learning to do things ourselves is good - tho visiting and seeing a professional do the job would be brilliant learning for him.

Yeah , the doing it your self is a good learning project , if your into it as a learning project then the hours spent can be worth it

Stu

 

[Martin Hocking]

There's two aspects to this - first, our carriage gets tighter toward the far end of the ways and it'd be good to have it sorted; second, we're trying to learn all we can about the engineering side of things, alongside learning to work on classic cars (well, my lad is, I'm just the bank and gofer ). Combined with a limited budget, learning to do things ourselves is good - tho visiting and seeing a professional do the job would be brilliant learning for him.

I think your enthusiasm is admirable Chris, something I try and cling on to. So please don’t take what I’m about to say as a slight or me being a naysayer I’ve thought of similar things many times but I think it’s worth pointing out…
Scraping your myfords bed to make it more accurate will be about as helpful to you and your sons classic car restoration as taking up golf or learning to oil paint!
What I mean is you need to realise that learning the skills and creating/purchasing the tools will take up most of the time you have spare to work on your car project/s it’s a whole project in itself.
Which is absolutely fine you just need to go into it with your eyes open.
If you still fancy a crack at it then the connelly book is out there on the old interweb as is Ron moores foundations of mechanical accuracy which will give you a better idea of what’s involved. I can post links but I don’t know what the forum rules are about that.

Also Google ‘myford wide guide’ which is another avenue you could look at to possibly to get a similar result.
Oh hang on here’s a link

All of the above spoken about as someone who last saw his motorbike projects about five years ago when machine tinkering took over…

 

[pressbrake1]

There's two aspects to this - first, our carriage gets tighter toward the far end of the ways and it'd be good to have it sorted; second, we're trying to learn all we can about the engineering side of things, alongside learning to work on classic cars (well, my lad is, I'm just the bank and gofer ). Combined with a limited budget, learning to do things ourselves is good - tho visiting and seeing a professional do the job would be brilliant learning for him.

There is a myford saddle modification to run on a un worn bed shear but not being into myfords I can remember.

 

[minimutly]

You can type either

 

[pressbrake1]

You can type either

I phone knows best

 

[not done it yet]

There's two aspects to this - first, our carriage gets tighter toward the far end of the ways and…

Nooo! It gets looser towards the middle (the most used section of the bed!). At the same time, the carriage may also be worn.

 

[Chris152]

I think your enthusiasm is admirable Chris, something I try and cling on to. So please don’t take what I’m about to say as a slight or me being a naysayer I’ve thought of similar things many times but I think it’s worth pointing out…
Scraping your myfords bed to make it more accurate will be about as helpful to you and your sons classic car restoration as taking up golf or learning to oil paint!
What I mean is you need to realise that learning the skills and creating/purchasing the tools will take up most of the time you have spare to work on your car project/s it’s a whole project in itself.
Which is absolutely fine you just need to go into it with your eyes open.
If you still fancy a crack at it then the connelly book is out there on the old interweb as is Ron moores foundations of mechanical accuracy which will give you a better idea of what’s involved. I can post links but I don’t know what the forum rules are about that.

Also Google ‘myford wide guide’ which is another avenue you could look at to possibly to get a similar result.
Oh hang on here’s a link

All of the above spoken about as someone who last saw his motorbike projects about five years ago when machine tinkering took over…

Thanks for the heads up Martin. Learning to work on classic motors is definitely the focus but along side that is a fascination with metal shaping and forming, and that opens the door to milling, turning etc (his granddad and great granddad were tool makers with BSA, and that really intrigues him). He's got his whole career ahead and I'm keen he gets to experience the stuff that interests him now so he can make informed choices. So, for eg, if he learns to measure accurately enough to correct the ways on a lathe bed (we're going to try on an old cheap one first), those skills transfer to cylinder heads etc. And the way I figure it, so long as we buy decent quality used kit, he can always get it back by selling on when/ if he decides to. I don't know anything about all this stuff, but I'm learning with him and loving it! I'll definitely do a search for the Connelly and Moores books.

There is a myford saddle modification to run on a un worn bed shear but not being into myfords I can remember.

I'll do a search for that too. Thanks.

Nooo! It gets looser towards the middle (the most used section of the bed!). At the same time, the carriage may also be worn.

Isn't that the same thing? We adjust the gibs to fit the worn section of the ways and then it's too tight at the far end.

 

[Chris152]

ps We picked this up yesterday for a good price - Windley 2' x 2'. There's a few unknown blobs that need to be removed, is acetone the best thing to try to dissolve them?

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

ps We picked this up yesterday for a good price - Windley 2' x 2'. There's a few unknown blobs that need to be removed, is acetone the best thing to try to dissolve them?

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judging by the strokes from the knife, this slab is planed. There is no qualification to check the paint print.

 

[pressbrake1]

judging by the strokes from the knife, this slab is planed. There is no qualification to check the paint print.

Yes it’s a grade b plate for marking out etc

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

Yes it’s a grade b plate for marking out etc

“3 slab method.”

 

[addjunkie]

Yes it’s a grade b plate for marking out etc

The shiny bit looks like its been abused for lapping or something.

 

[Chris152]

The shiny bit looks like its been abused for lapping or something.

That's a reflection from a lamp.