MYFORD SUPER 7 LATHE FOR SALE USA MANUALS
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As an example of the hasty and cheap manufacture incorporated in this particular machine, the tailstock clamp assembly was so poorly made that it was put aside as a souvenir of exactly how not to construct such an item.

Often there was a curious mixture of ML7 and Super 7 design, with parts resembling those from the latter including the tailstock, a modified roller-bearing headstock, hinged covers over headstock and changewheels - while from the former the simpler cross and top slides were used and there was no clutch fitted to the countershaftДЄ variety of interesting problems have been reported by one owner - a set of difficulties that took some time and trouble to rectify with modifications and changes necessary to the tailstock, motor-support platform, belt tensioner, saddle gibs and change-wheel carrier. However, most copies of the Myford by Far Eastern and Indian makers are not so honest - and are easily recognised by their crude appearance, altered belt covers and looks that are quite at odds with the superb detail design and finish of the genuine article.

As with all Warco-branded, Taiwanese-made machines it was a well presented and accurate lathe - and even included a roller-bearing headstock and the option of a very decently constructed replica Myford Industrial Cabinet Stand. One better-than-average copy of the late-model Super 7B (complete with a screwcutting gearbox and even power cross feed) was the Warco, this being listed as the 720 in standard bed-length form and as the 730 long-bed. Another version of the Super 7 has been found, the Tafenglong, complete with a screwcutting gearbox. One copy, the 'Prakash', came from India and was branded 'Atlas' on the headstock and, taking copying to a new level, used a badge similar in appearance to that on the very different American Atlas lathe (if you have a Prakash, please contact the writer). 4 Morse taper and Poly-V drive to the headstock - both well before they were introduced on the genuine article. Versions of the 'Colt' were offered in standard 20-inch between centres and long-bed 30-inch forms with some, from an uncertain date, having a number of significant improvements - a big-bore spindle with a No. It is believed that these examples were made by the Wei Yii Company in Taiwan - with another version, possibly by a different maker, being badged ' Tiger Turn ' and/or ' My-Turn '. One rather fine (and improved) Italian-made copy has been discovered made by the well-established machine-tool maker Minganti and at least five different 'Chinese copies' of the Super 7 are known, these being distributed using various names including, in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Whitecote, White-Colt 720 and 730 (or just Colt ).

Surprisingly, while many other makers have been content to allow their lathes to be re-branded for overseas markets, Myford were never tempted down this road - the only known exception being the application, in the USA, of badges proclaiming: ' Allied AMCO 7' x 30' G ' to some long-bed, screwcutting-gearbox equipped Super 7s of the 1960s (a picture is at the bottom of this page). Myford Copies Myford Copes Myford Home Page Mi-Bo, Prakash Atlas, Tafenglon, My-Turn and 'Chinese Unknown'

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