It is a thing of beauty,, ferguson grey once I've scraped it in and I've already got a friend lined up to make me a handsome wood box for it.
Thankyou Clive, it looks superb!
If you are retaining the original switchgear you can use the original Bridgeport transformer for the axis feeds and control wiring. If you check the right hand side of the transformer there are terminals marked for the input voltage. If you put your 240v feed into the 0v and 240 v (after...
Here are a couple of pics from the switch on my student. If you look behind the drum on the reversing switch you will see the lever which operates the push switch. There is a little latch on it which is what locks it in position. Hopefully the pictures make sense!
Top pic is in the off...
Superb news ! I can't see easily from the pic,do you have oil in the headstock? Those Gamet bearing need lube and it may make it quieter,,only may though!
Have you tried it with weight on it? I use similar ones at work and they sometimes wont work properly until they have some tension to operate the clutch properly. On the other end, if it gets overloaded and the handle is stuck and wont release,a good whack with a mallet in the release direction...
I've found it in the book, if you look at the rear of the lathe on the return behind the chuck there should be a square box nearly at ground level which is the mains input.
This is on a student, but cant see it being changed much
Yes, behind that,i think the cable entry was down on the back, you may see some where it comes out when you take the panel off.
My lathe was missing a few bits when I got it so not quite sure what was original or added on by the previous owner.
Found a picture of on thats been robbed of its contactor, hopefully yours looks similar. You can see the plug on the back of the panel, the input goes into the socket that plugs into.
I converted mine to vfd as I only have single phase, but if I recall the main input is behind the black control panel on the lower front left of the machine. Remove the 4 socket cap screws and pull it forwards and the mains input is a socket mounted to the lathe base. The control panel then...
I had a look through the parts book, no gasket listed for the headstock cover,,, i seem to remember making a thin paper one as I had a weep around the joint.
So maybe just a smear of jointing compound would suffice as no pressure involved.
I've got an early roundhead student,but I think they are pretty much all the same internals as the others ,just a taller headstock casting.
You can see the drain plug about 7 o clock below the bottom bore in the casting
That's the switchgear for the on/off and reversing handle on the front of the lathe.
There should be a perimeter gasket on the top cover,that doesn't cover up the oil wells as they get lubricated by slash from the gears when its running.
The drain plug is behind the drop gears under the side...
Could you thread a piece of bar internally to screw onto the end of the shaft then use that with a puller against the outside face to help pull the shaft through?
A bit like a 2 leg puller but with jacking bolts on the 2 legs rather than the centre.
Hopefully that would save putting any stress...