Yes, it does, I have one on my Connoisseur.

I have a chip "deflector" on my Super 7. It is cut and moulded from a large plasic milk container. There is a slot in the centre, the edges of which are moulded downward with heat, to fit in the gap between the bed shears. It is held in place by a screw, spring and a piece a plate screwed into the tapped hole intended for the travelling steady. It is also moulded to be biased downwards, so the when the gap in the bed is reached, it folds down into the gap. I have rarely contacted the chuck with it, but if I do no harm is done. In use the chips from the tool fall harmlessly into the gully running down the centre of the bed. It is most efective with iron and brass, which are the worst for finding their way under the saddle. It is not effective with curly steel swarf, but this is too large to get where it shouldn't anyway.

Greetings Bob,

A friend at work gave me a piece of butyl rubber left over from his new fish pond liner. I cut it to size and clamped it with a length of 10mm aluminium angle to the saddle against the left hand side of the cross slide on my ML7 using the tapped hole for the travelling steady.

With the saddle in the position shown in Chris J's photo the rubber just overhangs the shears at the chuck end. It is very strong and pliable and extends forward to just cover the leadscrew. When the saddle gets close to the chuck, it is heavy and soft enough to drop into the bed gap.

So far, after nearly 3 years of abuse from oils and hot swarf, it is slightly wrinkled but still doing the job of keeping the shears clean.

Gordon.

Yes

I'm always out of step !!