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We have £30 in gift vouchers courtesy of engineering suppliers Chester Machine Tools for each month’s ‘Top Tip’. Email your
workshop tips to [email protected] marking them ‘Readers Tips’, and you could be a winner. Try to keep your tip to no
more than 400 words and a picture or drawing. Don’t forget to include your address! Every month I’ll chose a selection for publication
and the one chosen as Tip of the Month will win £30 in gift vouchers from Chester Machine Tools. Visit http://www.chesterhobbystore.com to
plan how to spend yours!
Please note that the fi rst prize of Chester Vouchers is only available to UK readers. You can make multiple entries, but we reserve the
right not to award repeat prizes to the same person in order to encourage new entrants. All prizes are at the discretion of the Editor.Simple Myford
Lever Stop
TIP OF
THE MONTHWINNE
R!This month our lucky winner of £30 in Chester
gift vouchers is Mervyn Karwot who has an
idea to solve a little niggle with Myford S7
lathes.
I have always found the tailstock handle on my
old Myford Super 7 to be a problem as it can fall
backwards when it is released. Perhaps the design
has been changed now but a simple cable tie can
provide the solution if this is a problem. I used a
cable tie with a strap width of 7.5mm and a head
width of 12mm.
This fi ts perfectly around the eccentric shaft
and the head provides the right amount of
friction against the tailstock body. You can rotate
it around the shaft to a suitable position, it is not
seen from the front and it is done in seconds.
If the head of the cable tie is rotated around the
shaft , it comes against the adjusting screw which
acts as a stop to keep the handle from going back
any further. From the top, you can hardly see the
modifi cation.Mervyn Karwot