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email: tony@lathes.co.uk
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Myford ML10 Lathes
Photographs from the Factory Archive
Myford ML10 Archive Pictures Page 2
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Shown on this and the next page are a selection of professionally-taken photographs, preserved in the Myford factory archives, showing the Myford ML10 lathe from its earliest prototype form to the final production type. Intended for use in sales catalogues and instruction manuals, the original pictures varied in size from postcard to 10" x 8" - though there were very few of the latter.
Designed as an economical machine, especially suitable for beginners, the first ML10 left the production line on November 14th, 1968 - though complete pre-production machines had been photographed in the factory as early as August of 1967 and brochures received by dealers in January 1968. With a flat-topped, V-edged bed (identical in form to that employed on the wonderful toolroom Hardinge HLV-H lathe) the ML10 was a perfectly-adequate small machine tool - though it did lack several of the refinements to be found on the company's larger lathes i.e. there was no gap in the bed, no tumble reverse, the backgear was not mounted on an eccentric but in a slotted bracket, the carriage handwheel was geared direct to the leadscrew instead of through reduction gearing - and the headstock was clamped on from the rear rather than bolted down to the simple, flat-topped, box-section bed casting. Full details of the Myford ML10 and its various model types can be found here.
With thanks to the Myford Company for the kindness in loaning the content of their historic and long-unseen material - links to this can be found here
Pictures are all high-resolution and, on a slow connection, take time to load
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Undated photograph from August 1967 showing the earliest-known Myford ML10 - the picture being one of a series taken by Tempest Photographers that dated to late December in the same year. The one-piece tailstock (no set-over base) did not make it to production, nor did the headstock belt-guard with its plain, smooth front surface and "S" curved bottom edge at the rear (production models were to have a rib down the centre line of the front face that ran around a rectangular spindle-speed chart and a maker's badge in on the front face of the headstock). The apron handwheel is the first "plain type" with an as-cast front face and lacking a "thread-indicator" dial on the carriage handwheel with its accompanying machined flat surface and scribed alignment mark
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16th August, 1967 and the earliest photograph of a Myford ML10 fitted with the very different tailstock used on production models. It's not known if the simple, hinge-open guard fitted to this example over the backgear was intended as a production item for export markets where belt guarding was not compulsory - but probably unlikely. A close examination of the photograph shown that the two tapped holes to secure the full-width block from which the proper, full belt and backgear guard hinged can be seen in the top face of the headstock casting just in front of each spindle bearing.
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August, 1967: while still in an early form, the ML10's extra-cost bed and countershaft raiser blocks are already manufactured
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December, 1967: close to production but still pictured with the plain-fronted headstock belt cover and first design of apron
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16th August 1967 - the fixed steady was to remain unchanged until the end of production
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What appears to a one-off 4-way toolpost, probably milled up specially for the photograph - finish on the production item being rather better
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Another photograph taken on the 16th August, 1967 showing both the single-bolt retained hinge block for the backgear guard and the first "turned-from-the-solid" boss into which fitted the headstock belt-tensioning lever
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August, 1968 and the production version of the belt-tensioning lever is now made as a one-piece casting. Note how the end of the left-and-right-hand-threaded tensioning adjustment screw is held to the headstock by a bolt-on bracket. On later versions saved a few pennies was saved by the use of a drilled boss cast as part of the headstock
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First ML10 with a roller-bearing headstock: this has the belt-tension adjustment rod mounting cast as a boss on the back of the headstock. The belt tensioning lever has also been slimmed down
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ML10 with roller-bearing headstock: the changewheels set for the finest possible rate of carriage feed
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A picture from the first sequence taken of the ML10 in August, 1967
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