I bought an old myford ml7 a few years ago, a great little lathe. It’s an imperial machine but you can cut metric threads with one or two additional change gears, you can also carry out some basic milling of small items with the vertical slide. I find it pretty versatile without taking up too much room.
I work for a suzuki main dealer, they are what they are, small, basic, jiggly. Better on the motorway than I expected, very reliable. Only problems we get are the owners who don’t know how/when to engage/disengage the old school part time 4wd.
I’ve not used them for ages, but ordered some rim strips on thurdsay that arrived on friday using standard free postage and paying with paypal, I was surprised to say the least.
That’s making me realise I’m missing my straight cut whine, need to rebuild the ’72 1380 5 port sitting in the corner of the garage, wishing I could afford an Arden though.
We had a family run petrol station, we only started selling petrol by the litre when the fuel price reached 99.9p per gallon as this was the maximum amount the old mechanical pumps could display. Dad converted the pumps to dispense in litres instead of gallons so the litre price would have been about 22p. Could still only cope with up to 99.9p per litre though, so no good at todays prices!
Split/detatched vacuum pipes possibly damaged/knocked off when removing gearbox, or sized turbo wastegate/variable vanes could give boost at higher rpm and not store any trouble codes.
Don’t know about mondeos but a lot of manufactures put a fine gauze filter in the banjo bolts in one end or the other of the turbo oil feed pipe, this is usually blocked with carbonated oil resulting in instant oil starvation – check the banjo bolts are clear.
I’ve got two griplock ck’s and both are faultless, I have have had creaking, knocking and steerer wear with o ring versions though. Top caps not bottoming on steerer is it, preventing correct adjustment?
I’d try and spend a bit more and buy an old myford ml7 or super 7. I paids £360 for a1949 ml7 with loads of extras including a vertical slide so I can even do a bit of milling. All spares and accessories are still available for it too.
Have you looked at http://www.retrievatracking.com/default.aspx
I had one of their older tracking collars that you could track via viewranger on a smart phone or pc, looks like a new style collar now though.
See if your electricity supplier will install a free smart meter,we recently had our gas and electricity meters replaced by edf for smart meters with a moniter for nowt.
I shipped my out of warranty turner sixpack frame back to turner for a frame repair & refurb & didn’t get charged any tax/duties. Maybe I was just lucky.
I’ve got a real hankering for one of these, been fighting it for a few months now, don’t know what the hell I’d do with it, but I thought it might be fun to commute on & hold up the traffic!!!! <img src=”http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2860/9584718938_012fe7a859.jpg” width=”500″ height=”319″ alt=”ferguson-tea20-01″>
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