What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Alan]

Same car, 87 years apart.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

If only it was the same engine as well!

[Alan]

I’m working on that

[Ruairidh Dunford]

I'll bet!

[Tony Griffiths]

A very sporting job - and, against the left-hand wall, an appropriately vintage lathe on which to make bits, a Round Bed Drummond. Overcoming the idiosyncracies of that particular model is almost better than serving an accelerated turning apprenticeship!

[Alan]

The Drummond certainly has idiosyncrasies. So much so that it’s good for only the most basic of jobs. I’ve had it forever though.

[Charles P]

The Drummond certainly has idiosyncrasies. So much so that it’s good for only the most basic of jobs. I’ve had it forever though.

However by the time Drummond made the M Type at the end of the 20's they'd created a really useful lathe. I lightened an Austin 7 flywheel on mine. 
My lathe came from the son of the original purchaser who was a development engineer with Aston in the 30's

Charles

[Bob Culver]

I have a lot of Model Engineer mags about 1930 ex my father, and some Drummond pamphlets. Much was rightly made of the efforts of one amateur who made a large working model radial aero engine all on a round bed Drummond. The saddle was rotaed around the bed to accomodate odd sizes. The Drummond became the Myford

[Tony Griffiths]

The Drummond certainly has idiosyncrasies. So much so that it’s good for only the most basic of jobs. I’ve had it forever though.

However by the time Drummond made the M Type at the end of the 20's they'd created a really useful lathe. I lightened an Austin 7 flywheel on mine. 
My lathe came from the son of the original purchaser who was a development engineer with Aston in the 30's

Charles

Indeed, the M-Type - as also built by Myford from around 1941 onwards - was an excellent lathe; I had one as my first lathe and managed to collect all the maker's accessories, except for the con-rod boring rig - one of which, of course, turned up a week later (the Beardered Wizard uses on of these). In its later, Myford-branded form from around 1941 onwards, the M-type was offered on a really well-engineered 12-speed, all-V-belt-drive stand that transformed its ease of use.

[Hedd_Jones]

The Polo, having developed a wheel bearing noise on the way back from Monmouth earlier this week and, in any event, is due a (3)50,000 mile service, the Seven (newly serviced last weekend) has been pressed into duty as my daily for a couple of days whilst the VW receives a bit of TLC.

So, the Motoring Dog and I went to Rhuthin, some 20 miles distant, this afternoon to do some shopping, dodging rain showers as we went.

Leaving Rhuthin, the front brakes started to make horrid noises reminiscent of the sort of noise railway truck brakes make when being shunted - a sort of graunching screech,when lightly applied. I remember the noise well, as, when I was a nipper, I would stay at an aunt's house in Aberdovey, the house backing onto Dovey Junction.

When the brakes were inspected last weekend, all was well, and the only thing that I have done that might possibly have annoyed them was to blow out the dust and give everything a wipe down using brake and clutch cleaner.

Getting home, and after unpacking the purchases, I stripped the front brakes and found everything in order, so I have deglazed the shoes and drum in the hope that this will cure the problem. We shall see tomorrow!

The rain stopped just sufficiently for a couple of pictures taken in the town:-

David. 

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Your car is parked somewhere about 20 foot behind where your former RP is parked in this photo.  Your car would be backed against the muddy verge