Not very often! Some time ago I decided it might be a good idea so adapted a milling table that replaces the tool post and compound slide and managed to fashion a couple of brackets to form a cradle f

Hi Jim, Basically I decided to make three tapered spigots to fit onto my T slotted milling plate, a vertical slide, and a rotary plate ( with a' dividing head' feature) to then fit them onto the exist

Thanks for the offer Frank, but living in the UK the transit costs make it hardly worth it. I'm sure someone more local could use it. Since posting the query I've received some useful info. and using

Thanks for this reply. Some quite useful links that you mentioned has given me some ideas. Regards Dave

Many thanks for your comments. I thought that their might be someone out there who had managed to fit a myford slide to a SB. Regarding the Pine Groves cross slide kit that has been mentioned. It is o

On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:56 PM, bartholomewrichard949 wrote: The Fully Swivelling Milling Slide. Can you send me a photo. Does it replace the compound slide?

I had a Myford SL7 before changing to SB. One thing I liked on the Myford was that the crosslide doubled up as a milling table ( it has a number of useful T slots) by removing the compound slide and t