Restoring a Myford Super 7 Lathe (Part III)
Just to recap from Part 2. After cleaning off the dirt, grime and rust, things where looking good, thats until the paint started giving problems.
The troublesome paint has had 5 months to dry properly, so the respraying went quite smoothly. We finally found the colour that closely matches the original Myford grey. Everything got a good degreasing and sanding before spraying a couple of new coats on. The paint dried with out much hassle, the air was very humid (upwards of 90%) which causes some issues with water droplets but these where fixed with some more sanding and another coat.
Tommy unpacking some of the replacement parts.
On to the final assembly. Unfortunately once I started assembling all the parts I found that there was a few pieces missing, must have gotten lost before we bought the lathe. The most important missing part was a Gib Strip that fits onto the top slide. With out it you can’t test the machine. Apart from the missing pieces the rest of the assembly went well, I remembered where and how everything fitted together and as far a I can see the tolerances on the saddle, head and tail stocks are fine.
Bellow are some photos of the almost finished lathe.
Just need to fit the final few parts then we can test her out. Stay tuned for Part IV when I’ll finish off the last few things and cut some test pieces.