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I ought to report the previous users to the RSPCH
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The muck was so solid I had to hammer at my T slot scraper to remove the stuff. At one point I was conviced there was a casting fault in the rear T slot. The main motor is not easily replaced it is dual speed 1480/480 rpm and balanced to 0.0003" (peak-peak)! I'm investigating ways to power the various motors ATM Mike's step-up transformer into a 415v VFD looks favourite. On the other, it would take an enourmous amount of extra effort for little gain.Īs much as I would like to, I'm not trying to get this thing back to pristine condition, that would take more money and time than I have available right now So, the target is a clean, painted lathe in useable condition. On the one hand it would be the proper way to do it. I can't make up my mind whether to strip the gearbox, headstock and bed off of the stand for painting. I spent an hour Saturday freeing up the spindle lock microswitch mechanism (stops the spindle motor running while the spindle lock is engaged) I'm still scraping and brushing off dirt! Everytime I remove a badge or cover, there's congealed muck behind it. Well one week after I started scraping and brushing the dirt off. There are a few articles at that might interest you as you get closer to completion. In the feed motor control box, make sure someone has replaced the original selenium rectifiers with solid state diodes.
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I don't recall how much it was.around $80USD sounds familiar. I toyed with the idea of having the shaft flame sprayed and then grinding it to size, but I finally just bit the bullet and bought a new one and a new Oilite bushing from Hardinge. Your carriage drive gear looks like mine did. Like yours, mine had the quick threading lever on the compound broken off, so I made a new one from 1/4" stainless rod. The cold solution works well if you don't rub it incessantly. They had a number of different types, including both cold and hot solutions, in small bottles. Got it from a gunsmith supplier - Brownell's here in the US. Yup, but on my Bridgeport, not on the Hardinge.
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Have you trying chemical blueing on any parts? They should polish out with the Scotchbrite, then. Thanks for your concern but, those 'gouges' are where I waved a diamond hone over the top to see if anything would touch it at all (they are really very fine scratches - they've caught the camera flash)) Mick (the man on the forklift) spoke to one of the machinists at the firm I got the lathe from and he says they don't need change gears at all to cut English threads, the built in gear box works without them.
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I had been disappointed to find that there were no change wheels or banjo behind the machine's gearbox cover (all the pictures I had seen of the HLV's had gears). I took them apart and scraped most of the stuff out, then cleaned them with safewash pcb cleaner (doesn't eat plastic, unlike some solvents) now they're working OK. There's no way a glass scale would have survived.
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It's a testament to the robustness of the magnescale scales that they were still working (over the 2" or so that I could move them) while stuffed almost full of congealed coolant.
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They have a replacement switch overlay in stock for <£10 and will supply a manual for free :) Truly superb service :) I heard back from Axis_gb (), Sony's Uk distributor for the lathe's magnescale DRO.