Buying first lathe

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

That makes a lot more sense of your last post on the Drummond Group. The Drummond spindle was at best drilled 3/8 and the Myford ML4 19/32 so with your reported about 1/2 bore it looks like yours was indeed bored out thus damaging the end of the thread.

You can now check your serial (far right of bed) against the list on the Lathes.co.uk site to find the year.

[Jacob BrownParticipant @jacobbrown]

Posted by Keith Long on 08/07/2020 14:42:08:

Jacob, from what I can see in your pictures that lathe isn't a ML4 or any other sort of true Myford lathe but it looks VERY much like a Drummond "M" Type – the knock off bar along the front is a bit of a give away as I believe they were never fitted to Myford designed lathes but very much a Drummond feature. Where you may be getting confused is that during World War 2 Myford made Drummond M Type lathes under licence at first but later the rights to the design were assigned to Myford by Drummond.

It's very interesting indeed. It was manufactured by Myford in 1948 according to nemeplate.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

The J on the serial number idicates a Drummond built by Myford though initially they used Drummond serials perhaps because of split location production or using a stock of ready built parts.

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