Hi
My late uncle had a Myford in a shed at my Grandmothers house in
Norfolk.
By the time I was tall enough to use it he had moved it to his house
down the road
TU58 's is ready to test. I tried it in a spare serial port on a VS 3100.
Result nothing. I suspect the port is 423 and the tu58 232.
Regards
Rod
On 04/12/15 20:11, tony duell wrote:
Hi Tony
Thats interesting I had thought about a model makers lathe.
I have a pillar drill and the usual set of tools.
I am darn glad I asked for a lathe instead of a car (and driving lessons) when
my late father offered to buy me the latter. I still can't drive, but I don't
miss
that at all...
I did start out as a mechanical engineer and my
top subjects at school were metalwork and technical drawing.
Unfortuantely I went to the sort of school that inflicted Latin and
(ancient) Greek on its students. Metalwork was certainly a no-no, even
physics was frowned upon... But amazingly I managed to get 'electronics'
classed as a sport, so while others chased spheres and prolate spheroids,
I hand-wired a Z80-based computer, made a simple CRT from scratch and
taught myself how to use a lathe....
It looks like a visit to Machine Mart may be coming up.
Hmmm.. the tools they sell have various perjorative names that I
will not repeat publically.... The general balanced view is that they
can be used for good work, but you need to sort them out first, which
may mean access to another lathe and/or metalwork skills (sounds like
you have the latter). Personally I would consider a second-hand
Myford 7 (if you have the space) or Unimat (one of the old metal
ones, of course) if you don't.
-tony
