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I've been meaning to do this for about a year but, several issues and life/work/DIY got in the way. Seeing as I have two Tom Senior mills, I never use the milling function on the Warco W15/Minor that I have, the intention is to replace it with a Meddings drill that I renovated about a year ago. Its the same generic Taiwanese mill/drill sold under many names, Alpine, Draper and others.
Here they are side by side, I had just moved the Warco to the right so I could get a strop on it as the overhead beam for the winch stops just shy of the bench end. As my neighbour is using my engine hoist to get the engine out of his skid steer, the plan was to slide the mill onto the trestle table, but with a strop and chain around the drill in case it moves. its a heavy old lump.
It worked a treat, I'm meeting a neighbour tonight in the pub. These go for about £500 in decent nick, this is a bit sad looking and could probably do with new bearings, The bearings are all readily available and cheap being common sizes. So I could do it up for about £100 and get close to £500, or I could barter with the neighbour, I have some ground work and a bit fencing to do and he's got all the toys. This give me more workshop time in that I'm not renovating something I'm not going to keep, and I won't have to do the fencing or hire a digger in for the bit of ground work, probably about 2 or 3 hours worth.
One of the reason's it took so long was that the VFD for the Meddings kept tripping the RCD when left with no load for any length of time. So did the VFD in the wood lathe and a Tom Senior mill. It took me a while to fathom it out. It turned out to be the feeds to the brewery, they are attached to two solid state relays. For some reason, when I isolated these two MCBs, then everything was hunky dory,. So must be a small leak to earth. Since then I have swapped out the barn consumer unit for individual RCBOs rather than a split board with main RCD and MCBs. The problem is no more.
I hadn't come up with a good location for the speed control potentiometer on the drill, then it occurred to me that I could stick it under the bench out of the way. So a small die cast box, a chicken head knob and a bit of paint later and its sorted. I also made up some strain relief blocks for the VFD and reused a black plastic cover off the back of the telly to tidy it up, that's the black thing under the VFD.
The drill identifies as a British bike by leaking oil at a constant rate despite me chaining the quill oil seal to the closest size available off the shelf. I'm thinking of taking advantage of this by using cutting oil in it, kill two birds with one stone
Not really, its not that bad, its got the usual T32 Smith and Allen hydraulic oil in it. Takes about 300ml so not the end of the world to drain and refill occasionally.
Not bad considering its an amalgam of three different drills.
Cheers
Andy
Here they are side by side, I had just moved the Warco to the right so I could get a strop on it as the overhead beam for the winch stops just shy of the bench end. As my neighbour is using my engine hoist to get the engine out of his skid steer, the plan was to slide the mill onto the trestle table, but with a strop and chain around the drill in case it moves. its a heavy old lump.
It worked a treat, I'm meeting a neighbour tonight in the pub. These go for about £500 in decent nick, this is a bit sad looking and could probably do with new bearings, The bearings are all readily available and cheap being common sizes. So I could do it up for about £100 and get close to £500, or I could barter with the neighbour, I have some ground work and a bit fencing to do and he's got all the toys. This give me more workshop time in that I'm not renovating something I'm not going to keep, and I won't have to do the fencing or hire a digger in for the bit of ground work, probably about 2 or 3 hours worth.
One of the reason's it took so long was that the VFD for the Meddings kept tripping the RCD when left with no load for any length of time. So did the VFD in the wood lathe and a Tom Senior mill. It took me a while to fathom it out. It turned out to be the feeds to the brewery, they are attached to two solid state relays. For some reason, when I isolated these two MCBs, then everything was hunky dory,. So must be a small leak to earth. Since then I have swapped out the barn consumer unit for individual RCBOs rather than a split board with main RCD and MCBs. The problem is no more.
I hadn't come up with a good location for the speed control potentiometer on the drill, then it occurred to me that I could stick it under the bench out of the way. So a small die cast box, a chicken head knob and a bit of paint later and its sorted. I also made up some strain relief blocks for the VFD and reused a black plastic cover off the back of the telly to tidy it up, that's the black thing under the VFD.
The drill identifies as a British bike by leaking oil at a constant rate despite me chaining the quill oil seal to the closest size available off the shelf. I'm thinking of taking advantage of this by using cutting oil in it, kill two birds with one stone
Not really, its not that bad, its got the usual T32 Smith and Allen hydraulic oil in it. Takes about 300ml so not the end of the world to drain and refill occasionally.Not bad considering its an amalgam of three different drills.
Cheers
Andy
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