Hi [Bill Edit: not Jack – sorry!),

I'd suggest turning your own T-nuts and just buying some short 1/4" BSF hex-head bolts and washers. Myford sell nice blackened ones or just fit some BZP M6 ones. Turn a top-hat shape, thread and then file two opposite flats on the "brim" to enable them to fit into the T-slots – the originals look the same.

My ML7 came with T-bolts and nuts which are another option but I replaced them – I found that the threads stripped too easily where chips became embedded in the exposed T-bolt threads.

HTH

Jon

Edited By Jon Gibbs on 12/03/2018 11:35:42

Edited By Jon Gibbs on 12/03/2018 11:38:03

Have you rung Myfords to ask. They don't put everything on the website.

regards Martin

PS Or you could use the infallable way of finding the old set which is.

1. Make a new set.

2. Go to store them in a safe place.

3. Discover the old set in the safe place.

Edited By Martin Kyte on 12/03/2018 11:53:27

Myford do list the nuts as part C15 on the ML7R list but they are M6, my originals are 1/4BSF. The bolts are 13/16" long and hardened on my lathe. It is handy that they are BSF so I resist the temptation to borrow the spanner from the lathe for other jobs, whit. BSF are sizes I rarely use these days.

Mike

If you do crack on and make some the lost ones will turn up a few minutes later.

Edited By Mike Poole on 12/03/2018 12:28:41

….. not to mention the tee-bolts!

Make your own but not from F/C steel.

BDMS will do and 304SS is even better for the deed. You won't strip bolt thread to easy.

I have original set from Beeston and they work well with topslide but another original set also from Beeston used with swiveling vertical slide was a miserable failure. Replacement also was a failure. I have found that these were made of F/C steel, rather bad idea for a part which is sometimes tightened with more heft.

I have centered tees carefully in 4 jaw, drilled out offending bolts, made similar bolts from M8 high grade stainless screw and brazed these together. Product seems to be undestructible. For topslide you will obviously use 1/4BSF or M6, not M8 like I did for vertical one.

Martin

Yes. One can use a lathe without a top slide. After all, one likely needs to remove said part, if using a milling attachment. Think laterally, outside the box – or something equivalent.