would you believe it?

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

I have used my beloved ML7 for many years without so much as a vibration – it was a sad day when i put it up for auction due to my new arrival of an L5….it fetched a very good price, buyer turned up and we set her running, worst bloody thump and ratle imaginable, to which I says 'it never did that before'…only me!!!

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

[Simon CollierParticipant @simoncollier74340]

It was protesting against your betrayal.

[KettrinboyParticipant @kettrinboy]

Good choice of lathe getting an L5 though had my 1963 L5 for nearly 30 yrs and done god knows how many jobs on it and its never missed a beat…mind you now ive said that…

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by fizzy on 29/12/2015 01:24:22:

… buyer turned up and we set her running, worst bloody thump and ratle imaginable, to which I says 'it never did that before' …

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So … can we expect to see a new thread here soon ?

"Just bought ML7 … What's this thump & rattle?"

MichaelG.

[Gary WoodingParticipant @garywooding25363]

Posted by fizzy on 29/12/2015 01:24:22:

I have used my beloved ML7 for many years without so much as a vibration – it was a sad day when i put it up for auction due to my new arrival of an L5….it fetched a very good price, buyer turned up and we set her running, worst bloody thump and ratle imaginable, to which I says 'it never did that before'…only me!!!

Just another manifestation of "The 93rd Corollary of Finagal's Law of Dynamic Negatives".

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Sounds like the anti-vibration mountings on the motor, those 8 sided rubber things.

Can you still get them, at least in the UK ?

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

It's called Murphy's law here.

I think the rubber bushes are available in NZ, but it should not be impossible to carve out some rubber. I'v got 4 or 5 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 hp motors with this sort of mounting, must have a look at them, some of those mountings are at least 60 year old.

Ian S C

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

I had a local rubber moulder (Reading, Berkshire) reinstate new material after one such failure.

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