Dad’s Super 7

The Myford ML 7 lathe you can see in our workshop, I got in payment for servicing lots of sewing machines for a local school. I made the heavy wooden stand for it and stripped the whole lathe, cleaned it all up and painted it blue.

I used it for years, mostly making parts for overlockers, and we still find many uses for it to produce the odd unobtainable, obsolete part in our workshop.

Quite a number of male customers have mentioned it, mostly saying they used to work on one but had never seen a blue one!