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Things are busy in the workshop at the moment, this pallet has been sitting around waiting for somebody to divide it all up, photograph every last little bit and then write something erudite about each piece.

I've come to the conclusion it isn't going to happen.

So, here is a workshop. On a pallet. Complete.

What you get is a particularly nicely looked after Myford Super 7B lathe, it's been in one workshop from new, it's got a load of stuff with it and the original handbook. It's single phase, with no nicks, bashes or dings in the bed, saddle travels smoothly end to end, still in its original enamel, with a few chips but infinitely preferable to the worn out, resprayed old wrecks that seem to be breeding on eBay...

The rest of the stuff will just be a list (otherwise I'll end up describing every bit, which is what I've promised not to do).

• Myford Super 7B lathe, countershaft clutch, thread indicator, new spare drive belt

• 3-jaw Pratt self-centring chuck with inside and outside jaws

• Boxed 6 inch 4-jaw Pratt chuck

• Faceplate

• Catchplate

• Dead centres and half centre

• Boxed vertical slide with vice

• Boxed Myford Keats plate

• Myford angle plate

• Set of Myford cutting tools with "boat" type holder

• 4 way toolpost

• Two revolving tailstock centres, one boxed

• Two tailstock Jacobs chucks

• Sensitive drilling machine with motor and belt drive

• Pair bench grinders

• Drill grinding jug

• Good bench vice

• Set of drills in bench stand

• Set of D-bits in bench stand

• Box of assorted Morse taper shank drills

• Box of tool steel

• Very grubby dividing head with division plate

On the extraodinarily dangerous topic of electricity, all the machines you see here have been powered up and run quietly, with no crackling, fizzing or screams from either Geoff or I who have had one or more parts of our body in contact with them at the time. That said, they will need to be fully inspected by your own electrician for suitability, safety, etc etc etc. Probably worth getting your Mum to give them the once over as well ("a lathe, you could put your eye out with one of them..."). Oh yes, and the grinders don't have any guards whatsoever.