Myford Super 7 Lathe

GregT said:
No - shouldn't affect anything. That's quite a good price for a Myford here. I've seen them go for anything from $1000 to $3000 depending on age/condition. That one has a shitload of accessories - if you get it I want to borrow the dividing head....The seller's name doesn't ring a bell with me and i though I knew most of the southern shops.
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http://www.trademe.co.nz/business-farming-industry/industrial/manufacturing-metalwork/lathes-accessories/auction-587229029.htm
 
Poffer said:
Yeah, but they probably closed the "business management for dummies" course that the administrators were attending.... ::)

The UK has some fantastic engineering skills that has been watered down, scrapped and closed down decade after decade. There are pockets left, mostly run by people trained in the 50s & 60s.  God knows what happens when they retire :(
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Not quite 50's and 60's!

I started my apprenticeship in 1978 - this was the highest intake of apprentices for many a year in the S/E of UK for my company (approx 115 including engineer cadets). We had what you might call a proper indentured apprenticeship, with much time devoted to machining and learning vital skills in the classroom, in dedicated facilities and 'on the job'.
After 1978 the apprentice numbers dropped year on year until the training centres were mostly shut down, sold off and machinery sold. The government (and industry?) had decided that the UK was now the 'clever country', with hands-on skills and engineering so yesterday and thus uneccessary.

Industry withered on the vine and skills disappeared until eventually there was a severe shortage of skilled labour and the balance of payments went deep into the red. It seems paper shuffling and the service industry didn't create enough wealth after all.

Even now apprentices in very reputable companies are farmed out to tin-pot training establishments to learn in 6 weeks what we learnt in 10 months. Needless to say they can't work a lathe properly.

Not many kids of today want to learn engineering, they have been conditioned to go to university and then into management so they can boss about the dwindling amount of 'hands on' workers. Not going to work is it? Too many chiefs and not enough indians.
Heck, we had a 'business specialist' on TV the other day, she looked about 21-22 - yeah, right.

There you go! Rant over (for now).
 
I started but was "drilled" as to why I put a sheet over the lathe .......... told them I was making the "bed".
After that they "cut-off" my pay, kicked me out and called me a "tool - post".
I told my Master he was "boring, bar" the fact that he knew his stuff.
His wife was nice though, I fantasized I'd eventually get her "centre bit".

So, like Clem, I was "chucked" out, I was shocked, that's "four jaw".
 
yeah yeah Andy
as you well know, that was ignoring the minutes bit (which never changed) and it was the old short cut circuit, where the hairpin is missed out.
CLEM
 
Well a slightly sad update to my original posting:

Myford Super Seven lathe with all it's wonderful goodies  has been unloaded from the back of Andy's Disco and has made it all the way to the back of his garage (double +), it has a dust sheet over it and a Morgan Plus 8 parked up it's chuff and a Hardley to the right of it.

ALL, well most of, the fantastic advice that you have offered has been echoed by our 'tame' retired engineer Roy, who is a very active VMCC member and does decent miles, regularly, on his 650 Norton. Roy was to be fair very impressed by Andy's buying ability, less so by everything else!

I would obliviously have liked the lathe to have resided in my garage/shed/workshop, and hopefully still but the gap that I had made for it has just been fill by an Guzzi 850 T4. They are similar sizes and I am hoping that "Davi the Guzzi" will be even more mobile a fixture when I get it running!

Thank you again, I will keep you posted of developments.

James
 
so he went to work and became  a turd burgler when he could have been an industrial tubular fluid handling technician.
CLEM
 
sfc1000uk said:
* christ knows what the local engineering companies now do for training. Unemployment black spot & they're having to recruit engineers from Poland as they can't find them locally and there's no-one teaching the skills
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Over here they apply to the Feds and get 457 Visas so they can pinch skilled workers from undeveloped countries and underpay them in OZ.
 
Davo said:
Over here they apply to the Feds and get 457 Visas so they can pinch skilled workers from undeveloped countries and underpay them in OZ.
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Well over the summer months I get to see and talk to quite a few Kiwis who are working in OZ. General consensus is that the current crop of native born Aussie engineers are crap. Yes, there's still the odd older and generally good one round but where the money is, the Kiwis are fixing mistakes made by the Aussies. Your system appears to be geared to turning out numbers rather than good ones. Oh, and the Kiwis are being well paid too....
 
Davo said:
Over here they apply to the Feds and get 457 Visas so they can pinch skilled workers from undeveloped countries and underpay them in OZ.
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odd that, one of my mates has spent 12 out of the last 18 months working in Darwin because the Australian Navy can't find enough competent diseasal engineers.

Another mate is emigrating to NZ because they can't build houses fast enough. He's a chippy to trade so I don't think he's realised why Christchurch is having a massive building boom...

 
The Australian Navy can't find enough competent diseasal  :D engineers because they don't train them any more. Any maintenance or defect rectification above 'organic' level (carried out by crew using onboard spares) is outsourced. This new approche will bite them on the bum in the long term >:(
 
sfc1000uk said:
Another mate is emigrating to NZ because they can't build houses fast enough. He's a chippy to trade so I don't think he's realised why Christchurch is having a massive building boom...
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As well as Christchurch's situation he'll find out why we can't build houses fast enough.  The wages are so low...
 
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