Curious Myford Stand

[William ChithamParticipant @williamchitham75949]

I saw this Myford on a curious stand in a recent auction, I wonder if it was a factory option?

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Not a Myford option that I’ve seen but several between wars lathes were supplied on single foot stands. Normally heavy cast iron and probably meant for bolting down.

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

Not seen that type before and UNLESS bolted down I would be affraid it would topple over. Noel.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Aha! Not the strange stand but my eye was also caught by that tailstock chuck….

I have a couple of what look the same type, with a (Jacobs???) female taper instead of a Morse taper shank. What I take to be the trade-mark rather weakly stamped on the specimen immediately to hand is “Crown”, below a faint, stylised image of the head-gear.

The jaws are not cone segments but consist of two sets of interleaved plates with a Vee-notch in each so they enclose a square.

Are these drill-chucks or tap-holders? Or both?

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

The drill chuck is just an old style 2-jaw but is a drill chuck. We had a thread on here a while back – several makes including Drummond.

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[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

An unusaul stand, topped by what seems to be an early ML4, judged by the flat belt?

One careful owner, pity the subsequent one(s) weren’t

Howard

 

[William ChithamParticipant @williamchitham75949]

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Hopefully, yes he will!

Thank you for the remarks on the chuck: since the jaws in mine are effectively Vee-blocks they will hold round and square tools.

The stand is intended to be bolted down: the feet have quite visible holes.

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