Thanks guys, I'm really stoked, but it's going to take several hours before it's up to my desired condition. While wear is almost non-existant (the most important point) as far as I can tell, the actuator for the ecentric shaft that rotates the back gear into the main pinion and bull gear has spit out the crown gear. It fits on the back of the shift lever much like a GM oil pump drive and is held in place by a snap ring that is missing. That's going to be hard to find or figure out I'm afraid and I may have to come up with a custom retainer of some kind. Also gott figure out why the longitudinal feed is not fully enguaging, I think it's just gunk or adjustment since all but a small portion of the drive is shared between longitudinal and cross feed, and cross feed works fine. Might also be a sheared key/pin that's only holding by friction. <shrug> So I'll be tearing both head and apron completely down to clean/adjust/fix in the next few days.
Once the new lathe is running, I'll be selling the Griz to help cover expenses in the new lathe. I'll keep it only till I'm fairly sure I won't need it to make a gear, shaft, bushing or something else.
Come on down Brook, it's yours if you can load it by yourself with no help or equipment.
And if you can't, I'll buy you dinner and show you around as a consolation prize. You, Robert, and several others were my inspiration to get so involved in this. And yes, that means I'm blaming you guys with all this!
Oops, I cropped most of the Bpt out when I cut down the size. You can see the turret column and part of the ram at the right in the first pic, it has the 10 ga extension cord wrapped around the rear tool position. Here is another "for scale" item, the face plate hanging right behind the head stock is a 9" face plate...
And yeah, I like the L00, but tooling is hard to find and expensive. I just bought a Prat and Bernard (factory equip on Clausing Colchesters) 6” 3 jaw and an 8” 4 jaw, and it came with a Logan (relabeled Buck I’m told) 6” 3 jaw that has more wear than I liked. That leaves only a 10” face plate on my list.
What else did I get? Not much. 2 MT3 dead centers, 2 Albrecht 1/2 keyless chucks with arbors for the turret, a 6” driver plate, complete 5C rig but no collets, tailstock and apron turret, and an indexed turret tool post. The turret will live at the end of the bed until it gets in my way, then stash or sell depending on whether I think I’ll use it. But it weights about 100 lbs, so not much fun if I needed to remount alone. The indexed tool post is cool for repeat production work, but I’ll probably be putting on my Aloris AXA knock-off QCTP.
I’ll probably see if I can’t pick up a Royal 5C set from auction or reseller. I was at one of the resellers I’ve gotten to know last week and found a bucket full of rusty tooling, must have come out of a 40 tool machining center or something, everything had quick change arbors. Anyway, the rust was cosmetic only on most of them, but about 20% or so were pretty bad. But nobody wants rusty tooling... So I bought them for scrap price, 80 lbs for $6.80. I’ve already got 8 Albrecht chucks functional (though still needing some cosmetic cleaning, Scotchbrite to the rescue!) and a 3/8 Jacobs Superchuck, was also working on a tapping head tonight. Also got a bunch of VERY nice machined mandrels and arbors in expanding and solid stiles that look positively brand new. Over 100 lbs of those things. Maybe I’ll get lucky and find a Hardinge or (preferably) Royal 5C set like that.
Hmm, I also need a MT3 live center, but think I’ve found a spindle center, though the deal is still not closed. Then I’ll have to find a steady and follow that can be adapted to work (apparently very few Rockwells came with steadys or follows?).
That should get me set pretty well I guess... Anyone want to contribute to my dream... Anyone... Bueler??? Bueler???
