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Thread: Engaging back gear on ML7 Myford
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14th Nov 2013, 10:34 PM #1Senior Member
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Engaging back gear on ML7 Myford
I trying to help a friend who was given a Myford lathe. I did have one of these some years ago can anyone remind me how engage the back gear I thought it was a Allen keyed head bolt that you undone an slid across
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15th Nov 2013, 08:20 AM #2
On my ML7LB you have to move the lever next to the chuck upwards to engage the bull wheel after you have toggled the small lever in the bull wheel to disconnect the drive between the two concentric shafts !
Cor ! That sounds more complicated than the five seconds it takes to do it.
Anyway HTH.Best Regards:
Baron J.
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15th Nov 2013, 08:29 AM #3
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16th Nov 2013, 08:33 AM #4
On mine the bull wheel has a very short lever that rotates a half circle cam in and out of a recess on the driving shaft. The earlier machines may have had an allen socket to move the cam. I find it very convenient to engage the back gear selector when changing the chuck because it locks the drive and therefor the spindle making it easy to unscrew the chuck. You do have to remember to disengage the back gear selector before applying drive. It does make the belt squeal a little if you forget !
Best Regards:
Baron J.
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