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I'm enjoying this thread on a number of levels. Keep up the hard work.Thanks for the moral support everyone. As I said a little earlier this is a retrospective so the damage is already done so to speak!
I do feel very bad for making the little m type (it’s actually a lovely machine) do that but needs musted I’m afraid…
What makes it worse is have both! I haven’t had time to get my Cardiff lathe off the ground which even in its shagged out state would have probably enjoyed munching it’s way through that bit of steel!
And the picture below explains exactly why I can’t use my bandsaw. Let’s just say the mill isn’t the only thing that’s a shambles…View attachment 421083
My garage is worse, I’m to ashamed to post a photo of that!
What grade is that? It turned very nicely in the other photos.So what next for our hapless hero…
The next day I rang the local metal place so I could start work on the replacement spacer, thankfully they had something I could use all I had to do was lighten my wallet a little further!
The trouble with hanging around on here is that, everyone is so capable and well equipped you kind of become imbued with a false sense that you are too. So instead of doing the sensible thing of asking them to cut it close to the size I needed I asked them for a 4 inch long piece, thinking the rest will come in handy for later...
It was only when I chucked it up that it became clear that my 3 ¾ by 4 inch piece that needed to be 3 ¼ by 1 inch might be a bit of a struggle.
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Hmmm…
I dont know if theres a phrase for when the work you've got in the chuck is heavier than the chuck itself?View attachment 421037 View attachment 421038
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Thanks 6ply I think my camera must have some sort of filter on for those photos! I forgot to ask what grade it was, at a guess I’d say en3 it didn’t go to tiny chips like free machining does. I should ask really it might be nice to weld with it at some point…
The biggest trouble I have is there’s been a long time since the last time I used my lathe. Which meant theres was a bit of relearning to do. It was only after i got chatter on the last pass of the OD I realised that my tool wasnt sharp enough. Things got much better after much sharpening took place.
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Meanwhile back in the early turning centre, I rigged up the horizontal on the milling machine to cut the slot which carries the grease into the bearings.
I milled it out one sided because I decided to use a rubber sealed bearing in the top half. The easy task having the mill makes little jobs like this reminds me how handy it will be to have it up and running again...
*disclaimer this post contains staged photos of the milling set up and product placement. Other wheel based snacks are available…
I milled it out one sided because I decided to use a rubber sealed bearing in the top half. The easy task having the mill makes little jobs like this reminds me how handy it will be to have it up and running again...
*disclaimer this post contains staged photos of the milling set up and product placement. Other wheel based snacks are available…
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Well I'd like to say I've been building suspense in the last few weeks but the truth is real life and soil pipe has got in the way of sitting down to tippy type. Lets get this carbuncle of a thread finished off...
So having deburred the spacer time came to put everything back together again. Not having anywhere even close to suitable in my garage it was time to look elsewhere...I didn't have to look far.
Dining room table, bingo!
Now if you've read anything i've written in this thread so far you'll have noticed i'm not one to miss out on a cheap joke. And i'm certain there's one to be had about 'er indoors' getting upset at yet another greasey incursion onto the soft furnishings. But to be honest my wonderful partner has always been far too understanding and after 12 years my other half is more than just a little bit used to this sort of thing. We haven’t been able to use the front door for two months because there’s a puch magnum parked there, so this was small fry.
Saying that a question was asked about whether it was absolutely necessary to put a lump of metal in the oven. I wasnt totally sure but it made me feel better about the whole thing.
The pulley and the bearing housing were given a bit of a spruce up, more like limp mode than god mode i'm afraid, and we were ready to go. The bodge press was put back into action pushing the bearings back in all while watching an episode of bake off. Success! Although I still don't know what crème pat is...
Next up reuiniting the spindle with its bearings...
So having deburred the spacer time came to put everything back together again. Not having anywhere even close to suitable in my garage it was time to look elsewhere...I didn't have to look far.
Dining room table, bingo!
Now if you've read anything i've written in this thread so far you'll have noticed i'm not one to miss out on a cheap joke. And i'm certain there's one to be had about 'er indoors' getting upset at yet another greasey incursion onto the soft furnishings. But to be honest my wonderful partner has always been far too understanding and after 12 years my other half is more than just a little bit used to this sort of thing. We haven’t been able to use the front door for two months because there’s a puch magnum parked there, so this was small fry.
Saying that a question was asked about whether it was absolutely necessary to put a lump of metal in the oven. I wasnt totally sure but it made me feel better about the whole thing.
The pulley and the bearing housing were given a bit of a spruce up, more like limp mode than god mode i'm afraid, and we were ready to go. The bodge press was put back into action pushing the bearings back in all while watching an episode of bake off. Success! Although I still don't know what crème pat is...
Next up reuiniting the spindle with its bearings...
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A milling machine owner and there money are quickly parted, or is that a fool, whatever the old saying i'm certainly both.
I don't know about anybody else, but I find sometimes you can research things and somehow know less than when you started. One subject I can definitely say falls into this category is grease. Grease seems to me to be a bit of a challenge to purchase. As far as grease for spindle bearings go, what I learnt was that, you don't need as much as you might think, posh spindle grease has barium in it, posh spindle grease is expensive and the posh spindle grease everybody seems to recommend is kluber 15. You dont need to be Adam Smith to understand the two points above that kluber must be happy about. Now i'm not for a moment saying that kluber 15 isn't the best grease for this application and a grease testing chemical lab is on the list of things to build in my garden along with the ice cream factory and the sex dungeon, what i'm saying is that until then I dont think i'll know much more than the top line on the kluber 15 leaflet!
Matrix ls2
Brit lube high speed
High speed dn
I found a these alternatives which to my untrained eye seemed to be a similar thing for a fraction of the money and I doubt I or my mill would be able to tell in a blind taste test.
So from that i'm sure you can guess what I opted for. Thats right kluber 15! I bought a couple of syringes of what I hope is kluber grease on ebay (it could just as easily have been tyre soap!) and that kicks the can very neatly down the road for a tenner or so...
More lathe tool holder abuse…
These markings are actually quite important…
So with everything klub-ricated and the bearings put where they should be twice (the right way round the second time
). We were on the home stretch!
I don't know about anybody else, but I find sometimes you can research things and somehow know less than when you started. One subject I can definitely say falls into this category is grease. Grease seems to me to be a bit of a challenge to purchase. As far as grease for spindle bearings go, what I learnt was that, you don't need as much as you might think, posh spindle grease has barium in it, posh spindle grease is expensive and the posh spindle grease everybody seems to recommend is kluber 15. You dont need to be Adam Smith to understand the two points above that kluber must be happy about. Now i'm not for a moment saying that kluber 15 isn't the best grease for this application and a grease testing chemical lab is on the list of things to build in my garden along with the ice cream factory and the sex dungeon, what i'm saying is that until then I dont think i'll know much more than the top line on the kluber 15 leaflet!
Matrix ls2
Brit lube high speed
High speed dn
I found a these alternatives which to my untrained eye seemed to be a similar thing for a fraction of the money and I doubt I or my mill would be able to tell in a blind taste test.
So from that i'm sure you can guess what I opted for. Thats right kluber 15! I bought a couple of syringes of what I hope is kluber grease on ebay (it could just as easily have been tyre soap!) and that kicks the can very neatly down the road for a tenner or so...
More lathe tool holder abuse…
These markings are actually quite important…
So with everything klub-ricated and the bearings put where they should be twice (the right way round the second time
Good effort is all I’ll say! But keep up the good work, looks like your doing a fine job 
To be fair to Elliott they used top quality bearings for all their gear. I remember looking for replacement bearings for a 2gs pillar drill, most if not all were RHP. Originals are available but for a full set it was something like £600!! Safe to say some modern equivalents went in…
To be fair to Elliott they used top quality bearings for all their gear. I remember looking for replacement bearings for a 2gs pillar drill, most if not all were RHP. Originals are available but for a full set it was something like £600!! Safe to say some modern equivalents went in…
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You could always use any left over kluber 15 in your sex dungeon 
