Manky Monkey Motors

A good friend of mine is off to work in Oz mid January, and not knowing how long he shall stay, he is having to off load much of his very good workshop. So, he has for sale an ML7 Myford, single phase, with all its tooling, 3&4 jaw chucks, faceplate, centres, "dead" and "live|",tools, etc. He is located in the High Wycombe area, and is looking for around £500.00 for the complete kit. I know the lathe well, as he bought it off another mate only two years ago, and it's a tidy, usefull, piece of kit. Anybody interested, then PM me and I will put you in touch with the guy selling it. Its a good buy at that price! Morrag

At that price it's a bargain but I already have one  :) Will ask around but be nice for it to go to a forum member.

kin ell, if i could get it here i would

 I got two a colchester triumph 7 1/2 48  and a hendy  gearhead  12x30, or i would snap it up at that.  Someone on here has to buy it cant let it slip away.  ;)

anyone know of any couriers that would take this on for a fair price?

Last time it was moved 200 miles, it was in the back of an Estate car, it comes apart, if that's any use, Morrag

im gonna have to leave it , no car n every day at work till end of jan xcept hols,  >:(
its just too far for me at the mo,or id buy it tomorrow

I'm trying my best to ignore this post Dave and pam just gave me that look  ;D ;D

Hey Dave, surely she's buying you a Xmas prezzie? well....................... :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

Just buy it its not like its expensive by todays standards you would pay more for an unknown quantity of a myford off ebay.

Casually mentioned it to our lass while watching tv last night all i was met with was silence guess thats my answer   :D

She has all ready bought all my stuff and to be honest I don't have room in my shed believe me I wish I had room I would love a lathe in fact I'd kill for a lathe
Sorry Dave   

That's a real good buy,I have been looking for some screwcutting gears for my lathe,
Look on ebay,Nothing that i want but the Myford,And the cost of it.

Saying nothing implies consent

lol not in our house unless you want to sleep with one eye open

Got to be room on a kitchen worktop Dave, go on you know it makes sense!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

this thread is killin meeeee

To be honest Pam would say go for it if you want it she's not the type to say no she's as much into it as me with bikes and trikes I just haven't got room for it

If you get a "taker" on the kids, bingo, there's a bedroom spare!!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

Put it on your dressing table,You can do an hour or so before you go to bed. ;D

got a ,chevy, carb on the kitchen table as i type,, ;) ;)(missis went to bed early )

Do you stand on one off those to get dressed then

 ;D

Well look on fleabay two with ime to run yet and two more 850 one looks clean. I still think its cheap. But got two already, now if it had been a cincinatti jig boorer i would have snatched it up, fat chance.  ;D

I`m still sulking after putting a very respectable bid on an M type.
The lathe in question was one of the first M types produced by Drummond Bros and only had a production run of 4 years (1921 - 1924 for those that wish to know), making the one on ebay a rare old item.
During conversations with the seller, it appeared that there was little interest in his merchandise so I thought I was in with a good chance of winning it.......only to be outbid in the final 10 seconds. A once in a lifetime purchase snatched away from me  :'(

The trouble with you Mr.T is if ain't Bullock powered, or at best steam driven! you ain't interested really!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D ;D

So true, tis a struggle keeping up with modern technology  ;D

Being belt driven you could always convert the myford to steam.
The gentleman I got mine from built a road legal, scale, foden steam tractor, and a steam powered gramaphone :D

It could be done, but I`m afraid I`m a Drummond man  :D

You'd have to play your old 78s pretty loud to hear them over a steam engined gramaphone wouldn't you?
P'raps that's why those young chaps in their hatchback jalopies play their hippity hoppity music so loud.

Missed two lathes off ebay i had to have  >:(
  A very nice Henry Milnes lathe quite local to me, missed it by 33 seconds when i got back home latter than i planned.
   And worse of all a cone head Hendy 1230 to match my gearhead 1230 was tidy had face plate two chuxks and a bit of tooling it was at 50 quid, it got to 10 seconds i bid 60 thinking i did not need to bid anymore it went on the time for 65. 01 and 3 bids >:( There will never be another come up on ebay and i blew my chance.

the winner beat you by £ 5 but he may have bid alot more than you were willing to pay,you will never know. funny place is ebay

this is sold ....... sob sob wish i had seen it sooner

stumpy,,,, you, lookin for a lathe , ?

if it were the right one yes but no mad rush mike ? why what you got