Help needed in identifying Myford parts; chuck and work steady!

[tangledfeetParticipant @tangledfeet]

I'm a technical teacher at a Scottish secondary school and I've found some old lathe parts from an old Myford (ML7, I think) lathe that we had until a couple of years ago – if I'd known what it might have been worth I would've kept hold of it!!! It was taken away by the services company that installed the new (well, new to us anyway…) Warco lathes.

Anyway, I'd be very grateful if folk would be kind enough to assist me in identifying parts so I can sell either here or on eBay; proceeds will go straight back into the Faculty for new tooling for the Warco lathes – I'm teaching Practical Metalwork next year and we could do with so much yet have so little in the coffers…

First up is what is a steady from what might be a Myford ML7? In what I'd describe as 'as new' condition as it doesn't appear to have ever been used:

And then we have the first of two chucks… label says Burnerd Type 30 and I have sets of internal and external jaws, and original chuck key. What mystifies me is the mounting; it isn't threaded and someone elsewhere suggested it might be for a Myford 'nose'..?

I have another chuck that I know is worth something as one went on eBay a while back for around £120…

Any advice/pointers gratefully received!

[tangledfeetParticipant @tangledfeet]

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Can't recognise the fitting on the chuck but any chuck such as this can fit any lathe within reason if you change the backplate.

The steady is off an ML10 lathe and not an ML7

[tangledfeetParticipant @tangledfeet]

Posted by John Stevenson on 23/03/2015 20:03:33:

Can't recognise the fitting on the chuck but any chuck such as this can fit any lathe within reason if you change the backplate.

The steady is off an ML10 lathe and not an ML7

Brilliant – thanks, John!

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I think the chuck was mounted for holding in a vice or fitting on a spigot to then go on a rotary table.

[tangledfeetParticipant @tangledfeet]

Posted by Bazyle on 23/03/2015 20:49:04:

I think the chuck was mounted for holding in a vice or fitting on a spigot to then go on a rotary table.

Cheers – I was thinking along the same lines, too.

[tangledfeetParticipant @tangledfeet]

And another steady… don't think this is off the old Myford? Certainly didn't come with the new(er) Warco lathes!

Any ideas?

Edited By tangledfeet on 24/03/2015 08:33:46

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