ML10 10 Speed which tooling?

[chris lesutisParticipant @chrislesutis10749]

Hi all,

Just got my first lathe, a nice ML10 10 Speed with, a rodney mini mill attachment. Picked it up for under £300 which im sure is a bargin! My problem is there were no tools with the chuck. I want to buy a set of indexable tools but i have no idea what size they are? 3/8, 8mm, 10mm? the machine is standard. Cant see any info on the myford website.

Thanks!!

[chris lesutisParticipant @chrislesutis10749]

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Chris, get some High Speed Steel/ HSS tools or preferably blanks, grind up one or two tools and get turning,once you have mastered that/ well not making too many botches, then worry about Carbide Tips. Just get the feel of the machine with the tools it was designed for. The first thing you might need carbide for is roughing cuts on cast iron, getting under the hard skin. Ian S C

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

You havent said which type of tool post you have on the ML10? If it is the standard cantilever bar with the levelling screw then any tool you can get center hieght will do.

The original tool set was with a 'Boattail' leveling block and the tools had a cutaway iether side to fit it and you just slid the tool forwards and backwards on the boattail to get it level.

10mm tools will work fine and I suggest a mixture of tools with HSS and tipped tools for the task you take on. You have a top speed of 2000rpm I think? so tipped tooling will work fine.

Cutting with tipped tools needs a speed increase of some 150% over HSS.

Enjoy your ML10 and Milling attachment, you did well there!

Clive

Edited By Clive Hartland on 05/12/2012 10:51:27

[Halton TankParticipant @haltontank]

Chris, I own and used my Speed 10 for the last 30yrs and mainly used Myfords 3/8" boattail tools. If you have the 4-way indexable tool post then you will have to use 1/4" tools.

At the Midlands Model Engineering show this I bought the modified version for ML10/Speed10 of the Myford quick change tool post. – The best thing since sliced bread.

Regards

Luigi

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