Having been on the scraping course a few years back that Pete organised and with a couple of mills that are dissasembled waiting to be refurbed I have been looking for a Biax scraper for ages. Pete kindly lent me his for a while but I really needed my own one as doing this stuff is time consuming and is done on an "as and when I can get the chance to retreat to the machine shop" basis.
I have followed probably a dozen on e-bay over the last 18 months but they have all gone for upwards of £600 which for a 20 year old untested machine was beyond my reach
Anyway, as some of you will have seen I found an auction up in Manchester where a service shop for the oil and gas industry was closing down and they had 5 Biax's listed (and some amazing lathes, mills etc!).
In the end I ended buying all 5 on the basis some of them would be OK and I might be able to pass on a couple to others who were searching. The downside was they weren't cheap and I had to buy blind then travel to Manchester from Kent to pick up so a bit of a nervous day or two
Anyways, they are now all in the workshop and I am starting to inspect/refurbish them ready to keep or pass on. As there seems to be very little info on these other than on Practical Machinist forum I thought i would do a thread on each of the refurbs so if anyone wants to "try this at home" they have a bit of insight. I am by no means an expert on Biax's so lean on the knowledge of others so feel free to comment/question of you think I have got stuff wrong
I am starting with the one second from top. This is a 7EL I believe although the machine tag is missing and it is the middle weight general purpose Biax. The earlier versions (like Pete's one) had a silver knurled collar between the body and the motor housing and the later green ones (7ELM) had a diffferent body and motor altogether.
So thats the intro done, next post will cover dissasembly of the scraper.
Cheers,
MM
I have followed probably a dozen on e-bay over the last 18 months but they have all gone for upwards of £600 which for a 20 year old untested machine was beyond my reach
Anyway, as some of you will have seen I found an auction up in Manchester where a service shop for the oil and gas industry was closing down and they had 5 Biax's listed (and some amazing lathes, mills etc!).
In the end I ended buying all 5 on the basis some of them would be OK and I might be able to pass on a couple to others who were searching. The downside was they weren't cheap and I had to buy blind then travel to Manchester from Kent to pick up so a bit of a nervous day or two
Anyways, they are now all in the workshop and I am starting to inspect/refurbish them ready to keep or pass on. As there seems to be very little info on these other than on Practical Machinist forum I thought i would do a thread on each of the refurbs so if anyone wants to "try this at home" they have a bit of insight. I am by no means an expert on Biax's so lean on the knowledge of others so feel free to comment/question of you think I have got stuff wrong
I am starting with the one second from top. This is a 7EL I believe although the machine tag is missing and it is the middle weight general purpose Biax. The earlier versions (like Pete's one) had a silver knurled collar between the body and the motor housing and the later green ones (7ELM) had a diffferent body and motor altogether.
So thats the intro done, next post will cover dissasembly of the scraper.
Cheers,
MM