Hi, from Cyprus

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

I moved to Cyprus a few years back and never got around to unpacking my cowells 90 lathe and setting it up in a workshop, well recently i finished my shed and started looking into making it a workshop. Quite by chance a week ago i was offered an old lathe crated up in a box for the past 10 years, had no idea what i had agreed to take away, just was told it was heavy , so that was a good start. I got my cowells 90 as an 18th birthday present in 1978, it has been my only lathe so i was very excited to get something bigger. It turns out to be an early Myford ML1 in poor condition with many homemade parts of a basic and utilitarian nature, but its a lathe and kind of up and running. I am looking ,over a period of time to recondition it, well as far as my skills allow. it has the serial no. y642, any idea how old it may be?

Louis.

[Louis ShowellParticipant @louisshowell53682]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hello Louis,

Welcome to the forum. An ML1 is probably pre-war. Take a look HERE if you haven't already.

Neil

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