A Myford ML7 of my own

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When I was a teenager my father worked for a university department as the technical officer. His job was to maintain all the systems of the building (airconditioning, gas and compressed air supply, deionized water etc) and the equipment needed for experiments. He was also required to manufacture new experimental equipment. To do all this he had a workshop containing a Myford S7, a Littlejohn 10" with continuously variable speed, and a Marlow vertical mill.

Somehow I managed to convince him that teaching me to use the machines was a good idea. And thus was born a dream, to have my OWN lathe. So it came to pass in the year 2000 that I noticed that my shares in a certain institution were worth enough to purchase a small Chinese lathe, and I carefully watched the share prices for a few months and then sold. At the same time I was researching 'cheap' import lathes..... but all the time dreaming of Myfords.
At almost the last moment I got wind of a ML7 going second hand. Now remember I live in a place with few big industries, and even fewer private lathes, so second hand Myfords are rare. As it happened, the money, my birthday month bonus 13th cheque, and the Myford met each other and the ML7 became mine in October of 2000.

In the link table below you can find info on various bits of tooling I have made (or will make), some other projects and some things I think are interesting. Note that the subpages are generally very image rich since their intent is to show you things. I have tried to keep the images sizes down to 640x480 or less, but some pages just have a lot of images in order to show what I want to show.

It seems there are many who would like to talk to me and you are welcome to do so via the link. In fact I am amazed at how far some folk have gone to get hold of me before this link existed. Wow, guys.