Hi all,
Here are some pics of the lathe as she is.
The electrical problem turned out to be the electrician and not much else. The coil on one of the contacts went and it was replaced by a modern unit. However when the switch box was put back together the main contacts that control the motor speeds was put back in 180 deg out. By fluke it meant that the low speed contacts lined up but none of the rest, and somehow they did not short anything! Once i had worked out what was wrong it was as simple as pulling a split pin out, rotating the contacts around and putting the pin back in.
There are a few issues, the worst by far is the brake jams in the high speed position making it hard to get back to neutral, and the t/s handwheel has been replaced with a stop cock handle at some stage. What the? The T slots in the rear of the cross slide are broken out and the cross slide stops are missing too.
Anyway, she'll get a good clean at this stage. I think i'll need to get some positive rake carbide for her, not enough power or high enough feed rates for the negative rake WNMG's i've come to like. Fantastic finish of HSS though. When you can feed as slow as .0004" per rev you wouldn't expect anything else.
Cheers,
Ew
Here are some pics of the lathe as she is.
The electrical problem turned out to be the electrician and not much else. The coil on one of the contacts went and it was replaced by a modern unit. However when the switch box was put back together the main contacts that control the motor speeds was put back in 180 deg out. By fluke it meant that the low speed contacts lined up but none of the rest, and somehow they did not short anything! Once i had worked out what was wrong it was as simple as pulling a split pin out, rotating the contacts around and putting the pin back in.
There are a few issues, the worst by far is the brake jams in the high speed position making it hard to get back to neutral, and the t/s handwheel has been replaced with a stop cock handle at some stage. What the? The T slots in the rear of the cross slide are broken out and the cross slide stops are missing too.
Anyway, she'll get a good clean at this stage. I think i'll need to get some positive rake carbide for her, not enough power or high enough feed rates for the negative rake WNMG's i've come to like. Fantastic finish of HSS though. When you can feed as slow as .0004" per rev you wouldn't expect anything else.
Cheers,
Ew
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