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The makers also offered separate bed sections, complete with individual mounting feet, to give a maximum length capacity of 72'. Another, equally rare version was the ML8 Universal Woodworker, this being supplied on a cabinet stand and available with a wide range of accessories including a tilting saw bench, rear and front-mounted sanding discs and tilting support tables, a 3-jaw chuck and a metal-turning compound slide assembly, a planer, a false-nose for mounting polish mops, a timber-support platform, a grindstone unit with guard, a complete bandsaw unit and a mortising attachment.

There was also a special short-bed version, the ML8S, that lacked a tailstock and is normally found mounted on a simple, silver-painted underdrive stand constructed from light angle-iron with a pressed-steel top and complete with outboard bowl turning and a metal-working compound slide rest from the metal-working ML7. A standard 30-inch machine was catalogued as the ML8 but, when fitted with bowl turning, became the ML8A and, with 36 and 42-inch beds as, respectively, the ML8B and ML8C. Intended for economical production, the lathe had a bed made from a length of seamless, drawn steel tube (in an attractive dull, nickel-plated finish), and was available in three standard capacities of 30, 36 and 42 inches between centres. Mr Payne taught me more in the hour or so that I was with him than I could ever have learnt at school. On the Myford stand at the exhibition, Ted introduced me to a Mr Fred Payne who was Myford's wood turning demonstrator. Subsequently, he was to buy the Bandsaw attachment and the outboard sanding table, both these being in the standard yellow. On one of our annual excursions Dad did a deal with Uncle Ted and bought the green lathe on display, complete with the rear turning attachment. As you know he became MD and held that post till retirement. My father and I went for several years if only to meet up with my uncle, Edward (Ted) Barrs, then a fairly 'big noise' at Myford's Beeston. Emmans, his son who now owns the lathe writes, ' The Model Engineers Exhibition was held annually in the Royal Horticultural Hall in Westminster. However, one early lathe was not yellow, but supplied in green to a Mr. The earliest versions were painted cream, later ones silver and the last finished in a rather pleasing shade of light green. Neat, well made and beautifully finished, this 4-inch centre height lathe enjoyed a large and loyal following and continued in production until the mid 1980s. Introduced ML8 in the late 1940s the lathe had been patented, applied for in January 1947 the number GB620276 was allocated and granted in 1949. Not Myford's first dedicated wood lathe - one was built in the late 1930s whose intended production was interrupted by the start of WW2 - the ML8 was designed by Edward Barrs, the man also responsible for ML7 and who went on to become Managing Director of the Company. ML8 Universal Woodworker & Patents Myford Mystro Myford Home PageĪ Data Pack of interesting literature is available for the ML8 as well as newīackplates and link drive belts.

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