I though I had better start a new thread for this aspect, if I am not trespassing too much on members' patience and good will after the great response to my previous question on 'transportability', if you remember that.

What will be needed to undo the bolts that hold the lathe to its original Myford stand?

Likewise, what will be needed to unbolt the electric motor, if that seems necessary? And is this a job that could go wrong, quite apart from the need to record where the wires go?

It may not help that this is a later Super 7 (but not the very last of the line), green in colour, and that I am told that it is possible it had a metric conversion carried out (the present owner knows very little about it all, her late husband being the real owner and an engineer). I don't really know, however, exactly what a metric conversion might have entailed

I don't wish to turn up 200 miles away without the correct tool kit, if someone could be so kind as to tell me what is required. I have a fairly full metric set of spanners and sockets (and somewhere an AF set), and metric and imperial Allen keys, but I have a nasty feeling I may need BA and/or BSF spanners – am I right? (I used to have a Whitworth set when I had a P4 Rover many years ago, but I gave it away.)

Roger