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As this seems to be the season for Fobco matters can I join in?
I have just disinterred a Fobco 2MT from the depths of the treasure store and started to strip it down for cleaning and recommissioning. Note recommission not the museum standard restoration some of you have undertaken.
It is a 3 phase machine and was a gift from my wife's brother decades ago. It has a machine number 47861U if that means anything to anyone.
The chuck is stamped 2MT 3 JT. Presumably this defines the taper and chuck size.
Can anyone decode this information for me? Can I do anything useful with this information?
It has 'modern' on/off buttons not a rotary switch as seems to be fitted to most of the drill presses featured here. I haven't got into it yet, but it seems all present and correct apart from the green plastic cover of the on button.
Can this machine be made to reverse? Easily?
It has 4 speed pulleys giving:
4260
1990
1020
475
It would be useful to change one of the pulleys to give speeds around half this. I haven't started the Google expedition yet, so can anyone save me a futile search and advise
Is this is at all possible/viable/cheap?
It has a few crude repairs to clamping screws which have metric threads. I found my metric Allen keys fitted the pulley grubscrews better than my imperial ones.
Is this machine all metric or just these bodges?
I have just disinterred a Fobco 2MT from the depths of the treasure store and started to strip it down for cleaning and recommissioning. Note recommission not the museum standard restoration some of you have undertaken.
It is a 3 phase machine and was a gift from my wife's brother decades ago. It has a machine number 47861U if that means anything to anyone.
The chuck is stamped 2MT 3 JT. Presumably this defines the taper and chuck size.
Can anyone decode this information for me? Can I do anything useful with this information?
It has 'modern' on/off buttons not a rotary switch as seems to be fitted to most of the drill presses featured here. I haven't got into it yet, but it seems all present and correct apart from the green plastic cover of the on button.
Can this machine be made to reverse? Easily?
It has 4 speed pulleys giving:
4260
1990
1020
475
It would be useful to change one of the pulleys to give speeds around half this. I haven't started the Google expedition yet, so can anyone save me a futile search and advise
Is this is at all possible/viable/cheap?
It has a few crude repairs to clamping screws which have metric threads. I found my metric Allen keys fitted the pulley grubscrews better than my imperial ones.
Is this machine all metric or just these bodges?