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Post by remmington on Sept 21, 2013 17:40:42 GMT 1
Wondered round my Dads this afternoon with the dog. Mum let me in with "your father is in the conservatory and his is not in a good mood". Wondered thru the house, my 78 year old dad is sitting in his arm chair drinking scotch, he offers me one, I except! Ask him "what wrong?". He replies... "go have a look in the garage".
I went and had a look. He has had a terrible accident with his prized Myford lathe, something has got out of the chuck while he was making a screw thread. Broken castings on the head and tail stock, jammed and smashed gears. A real mess!
I think he has enough spares to start a rebuild. Big project at his age!
When I got home, was talking to my wife about it! We have decided, if he accepts the challenge for lathe rebuild at his age! We will know. He wants to live forever.
When he gets over the shock, I am going to have a day pulling it apart with him. Get on ebay, source the parts he has not got stored away!
Both my parents have filled retirement with hobbies. It will be a shame when they are too old or too tired to continue them!
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Post by chippie on Sept 21, 2013 19:01:38 GMT 1
Remmi, I feel for your Dad...
I'm a hobby machinist too ( as well as playing with cars....) so can appreciate how he feels.
If you look at RDG's website, they sell Myford spares. They bought up all of Myford's stockk when they folded. They even bought the Myford name, so they would be a good start for obtaining spares to rebuild his machine. Best of luck and hope your Dad feels better soon... 
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Post by spannermonkey on Sept 21, 2013 19:06:36 GMT 1
Sorry to here about the mishap but every cloud and all that,bit of father/son time while rebuilding and a few beers/scotch's inbetween ,maybe even a wee car ride for parts  My old man retires next year and has no hobbies or interests apart from football on telly and a beer so god knows what he's gonna do with his time at 65 nevermind 78 |
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Post by remmington on Sept 21, 2013 19:22:46 GMT 1
"out of chuck experience" is not nice!
I once had a exhaust manifold come out a milling vice when I was fly cutting it!
Made me jump out of my skin!
Looks like he had something long between centres, but it looked like he had a fixed steady behind it (that got broken too).
Bet it made the old boy jump abit!
Machine accidents are nearly always... Caused by taking too much off too quickly!
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Post by Noberator on Sept 21, 2013 20:04:10 GMT 1
Remmington at least your Dad's not been hurt or injured. May be his pride has I don't know.  Here's a link to the genuine Myford place not that far away from me who do mail order which you may find useful when you and Dad come to rebuilding his Myford lathe. |
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Post by Rhubarb on Sept 21, 2013 22:29:30 GMT 1
Good to see him keeping so busy and active though..That's the secret to a long life.. My neighbours 81, an ex joiner..He's always out in his shed tinkering  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2013 23:17:17 GMT 1
Men need a shed to escape |
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Post by Dai on Sept 22, 2013 0:06:36 GMT 1
Hope he gets the Lathe fixed Fella My dad is 82 this year, I have had to Chain and padlock his ladders to the rafters they hang from in the garage, earlier this year he was on his way up onto the main house roof to replace a broken tile. No roof ladders, just a pair of shitty old slippers. Just aswell i stopped him, took my roofer m8 3 hours to sort the job in the end as the felt underneath needed replacing aswell. Think its a generation thing, stubborn and very self sufficient, wont ask for help as their pride gets in the way, but i dont mean it in a bad way, just the way they are  |
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Post by gasmonkey on Sept 22, 2013 21:23:09 GMT 1
Good to see him keeping so busy and active though..That's the secret to a long life.. My neighbours 81, an ex joiner..He's always out in his shed tinkering I agree. Don't know what i'm gonna do when i retire though, already spend most of my spare time out in the garage "tinkering" |
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Post by remmington on Sept 22, 2013 21:54:59 GMT 1
Good to see him keeping so busy and active though..That's the secret to a long life.. My neighbours 81, an ex joiner..He's always out in his shed tinkering I agree. Don't know what i'm gonna do when i retire though, already spend most of my spare time out in the garage "tinkering" I agree.... A retired man does need a shed! My parents are into everything! Dad 78. Lathe, stationary engines, wooden boat building, fly fishing, fly tying, caravan. Gardening. Holiday relief in my garage! Mum 79. Tai chi, caravan, great grandchildren, gardening, dogs, chickens, she even looks after for days and nights my wheel chair bound nephew who is nearly 30 and 15stone plus. She can get him into bed and the bath no problem. (got a disabled kid, you don't need any special equipment, you just need my Mum). They have been lucky health wise! Dad may have a couple of pints once a week but that's all, Mum smokes and will drink a couple of glasses of white wine most days! |
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Post by spud on Sept 23, 2013 7:32:09 GMT 1
sorry to hear about this hope you can sort it think the key to a long retirement is keeping busy |
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Post by chippie on Sept 23, 2013 12:42:11 GMT 1
Remmington at least your Dad's not been hurt or injured. May be his pride has I don't know. Here's a link to the genuine Myford place not that far away from me who do mail order which you may find useful when you and Dad come to rebuilding his Myford lathe. Yup that was the place I was referring to......Now owned by RDG.... |
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Post by motorwise on Oct 1, 2013 23:41:27 GMT 1
Men need a shed to escape thats why jerry has his MG  |
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Post by Noberator on Oct 1, 2013 23:51:30 GMT 1
Men need a shed to escape thats why jerry has his MG  Have you read the sign in his back window?  It tickled me up. |
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