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The "manuals" look to be more like sales brochures, they lack instruction for setting up the change gears. I will post some better pictures before I ask any questions.
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It lacks a makers plate so I can't date it accurately but it does look like the older model Ms. It desperately needs some extra-TLC on the spindle, a previous owner tried to convert it to V-belt and didn't re-assembly the spindle, which has since seized. Yippee lots of info on my lathe! Thanks guys.
DRUMMOND LATHE MANUALS
Hi Kenneth, if you hover over WORKSHOP in the black bar above and then click on Machines and then scroll down to Machine Tool Manuals - a Library, you'll find a copy of the user manual for the drummond M type. If you wish I can send some by email just send a personal message with an address to send it to. I also have quite a coĺlection of information on them.
DRUMMOND LATHE MODS
I have done quite a few mods and improvements and make many parts on it.
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Hi Kenneth I have an M Type lathe and it is a very capable little lathe. I believe there is a yahoo site out thereĮdit: anyone anysite that wants them can use/store them, the more the merrier imo Sorry about the mistake, it is an M type. There is a very active facebook page for Drummond /Myford lathes that might be able to help. I will pass on any messages that you can send to me and Keith will no doubt contact you. He is having difficulty trying to get everything to work and if any one in the Wetherby/ Leeds area has such a machine, Keith, would love to visit and discuss the various points that are giving him some trouble. And the screw's endfloat in the brass bearing/mount is about 0.I am writing this message for a friend that has recently purchased a Drummond Mk 4, 3.5" Lathe. I can move the nut back and forth about 1.0mm on the screw. RDG do a 3/8 x 10tpi LH tap for £10 but not an 8tpi :sad:, then again i dont want to be making a new screw if I can help it. It is 8tpi LH x 3/8", I measured it accurately with the digital calipers. this is the topslide, but the cross-slide also has a screw head only visible once the topslide is removed. Further inspection revealed a bronze/brass nut held in by a screw - see pics. Where the RelMac has the leadscrews working directly into the cast iron, the SuerRelm is more sophisticated and I found, after moving the tool carrier and cleaning 85 years of gunk off, a screw head. OK, a closer inspection and the application of some cleaning cloths showed I was wrong in assuming the SuperRelm was like its smaller brother.
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DRUMMOND LATHE TRIAL
I think the advantage of the second approach is I can trial different nuts and maybe get some form of anti-backlash approach in there. mill out a section of the block and drop in a new 'nut'.bore out the cast iron block (with my new boring head on the mill), assuming there is space and fit a bronze/delrin/whatever sleeve.fit new metric trapezoidal screws, say TR10x2.I'll get some pics/drawings done in due course but I'm guessing the wear is in the cast-iron block (nut) and not the screw as I can move the slide back and forth 2mm on the screw. In other words there is little opportunity to make another part. It currently has 8tpi ACME (or something like that, square topped) threaded screws working onto a tapped cast-iron block which is the slide itself. I need to fix the backlash on the cross- and top-slide on the lathe (the 85y old one) This is one for the experts, JohnS, Robin, etc.