I have just become the proud owner of the above lathe,, while i have not done any machining for many years.

I have worked in two places that had old myfords, the first when i was doing my apprenticship when i worked in the toll room. The second was in heay industry where we made furnces for melting steel, they weighed many many tons. Having said that they had this very old Myford lathe that was a gem, most of us jumped on it to do little jobs.

My question is my one has a back gear but the book does no say how you engage it. If you lift the gear/belt cover you can see the back gear. The bigger gear has a small allen bolt, do i undo this and move it out to allow the drive train to pass through the four gears at the back of the chuck.

I have look in the book but cant find out how use it though it does mention it. I know the back gear is used for screw cutting though i will not be doing this. I just want to know how to get it to work.

Cheers

Hi

Tabks for the info much appriciated, the link was especially good.

Many thanks