Got Me A Bargain

[Ken I]

Well here's a great buy.

One of the toolrooms that does work for me has moved in next door and no longer has space for all his machines.

So he sold me his oldest (20 years) Standard turret mill for U$400 (R2500)

It has the usual slings and arrows of outrageous fortune but everything works including the 2 axis DRO.

A lot of TLC coming up.

Too big for my home workshop so it will have to live at the factory.

Now I need a bigger lathe.

Ken

 

[arnoldb]

That's a steal Ken !

 

[MachineTom]

Yes Sir, that is a Great deal, lokks like all the bells and whistles are there.

 

[rake60]

Great Score Ken! Thm:

Rick

 

[ShedBoy]

That is about the same size one that I have. I call mine 1 tonne o fun. You can start thinking about large models with the bigger gear. You will be havings much funs with this un.
Brock

 

[ChooChooMike]

WOW ! A deal for sure

 

[pete]

Great score, Looking at the pictures it looks like that mill was grouted to the floor old school style. If they took the time and energy to do that then no doubt they also did the same looking after that mill.

Pete

 

[Ken I]

Been working my way through the machine - repaired all the wiring, replaced the damaged /missing switches and lights - cleaned out the DRO scales etc. etc. Going to try and source new rubber seals for the DRO scales.

Two problems - the adjustments for the turret tilt and turn don't work - which makes tramming a PITB - stripped it to find the turn gear securing bolts and dowel are broken off - that's an easy fix.

The tilt has four teeth broken off the casting - this is a gashed not hobbed gear so I can flycut new teeth after sinking in and bolting a replacement chunk of material - working on that now - I considered welding but thought better of it.

This machine must have suffered an almighty crash at some point in its life. The 1 1/8" diameter wrist pin is bent ???

What a strange machine, its a mixture of imperial and metric -the worm is 0.4" circular pitch (2.5 t/inch) with a 14½° pressure angle - I thought 14½° was banished by Queen Victoria ??

The various bolts, pins etc are also an eclectic mix of imperial and metric - the bolts holding the turret are 1/2" unc with 19mm Hexagons (not 3/4") - the bolts & pins holding the turn worm are M6.

How curious.

Ken

 

[Ken I]

Got around to fixing the busted tramming gear.

Milled a flat where the busted teeth were and bolted & doweled down a steel insert (to be honest the toolrom next door is doing this for me to my drawings - too big for my minimill).

Now gashing the teeth with a hand ground cutter set to the correct gashing diameter.

(These teeth were originally gashed not hobbed.)

Ken

 

[Ken I]

I can't beleive its 2 months since I gashed the gears - I got around to assembling it today (its been "parked in" by a couple of work related builds - bother !).

There were a couple of tight spots which you can drive through but a bit of engineers blue and a Dremmel soon took care of those.

I am now working on the quill feed stop which is out of true - quite a mission to get apart - the top rocker was a sod to extract. (Same problem to retighten it if i ever comes loose).

Anyway hope to have it finished soon.

Ken

 

[coopertje]

Great machine Ken, and neat work on the rehabilitation of this machine. It is lucky to have you as a new owner. Like your style of repairing, many people these days would be blocked with such a gear damage (too much of a throw away and replace society these days).

Enjoy the machine, looking forward to the upcomming progress.

Regards Jeroen