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Kermit? It isn't easy...
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Back in the day most sand castings used in engines gearboxes or machinery were treated to a heavy coat of glyptal to seal the surface, without this sand would leach from the surface turning any lubricant into grinding paste. This was also red in colour.
Bob
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It's RAL6018, by Tractol.
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Today I am a happy bunny I got home to find my missng part, which I found a replacement for in Slovakia, had been delivered 
This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
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What a guy he is Pete, very good of him. Try get him on hereToday I am a happy bunny I got home to find my missng part, which I found a replacement for in Slovakia, had been delivered
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This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
Karma does come back sometimes..Today I am a happy bunny I got home to find my missng part, which I found a replacement for in Slovakia, had been delivered
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This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
Is that the part you were making the former for to have cast?Today I am a happy bunny I got home to find my missng part, which I found a replacement for in Slovakia, had been delivered
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This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
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It is yes. I was resigned to having one cast when this guy took the trouble to do a search on a Czech/Slovakian equipment buying/selling website and found one in Slovakia.
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What goes around comes around.Today I am a happy bunny I got home to find my missng part, which I found a replacement for in Slovakia, had been delivered
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This means I can now have a choice of fitting either the fixed table or the tilting table as required. A very generous guy in Slovakia drove 140km to collect this for me, stripped off the parts I did not need to get the weight down and wrapped it up for collection, and he wouldn't take any money for doing it either. It just goes to show that like-minded souls exist all over the world.
I can still remember you helping me out and you did not want to accept money either.
Happy you got the part!
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I had to re-make the oil sight glass. Well, plastic as it happend but the old one was rotten and deformed so I turned one from acrylic. I put an o-ring on the mating face but when I fitted it up it looked ugly because you could see the rough-looking mating face behid, so I ened up fitting it with some RTV as well as the O-ring.
Pic of it fitted along with the old one for comparison.
Pic of it fitted along with the old one for comparison.
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Nice! Mine has a flat acryl screen, and a steel plate what pushes it to the frame. That O-ring seal is a grat idea, I might disassemble it, as if I can install one too.
I made a tube piece for the oil screw, so next time I change oil, I don't need to wipe the residue off the paint. Its not sticking out much, around 20-30mm.
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Painted some parts this weekend:
My newly-aquired mount plate for the tilting table:
The top slide:
And the base casting. The took up most of my day being in a very rotten cosmetic condition as well as being full of gungy crud. It was thick with soft red 1960's filler much of which I stripped off with a scraper to avoid making too much dist, then I plastered it with body filler and hit it with a belt sander to smooth it down before going over with a DA. After that I gave it 2 heavy coats of high-build UPOL primer and when that was cured, the Tractol green on top. It's by no means a perfect job but that's not important to me. It'll be a working machine and this part is sure to be chipped and bashed about as it's used so how I'm satisfied with how it's come out.
Now that these parts are done I can get on with assembling the main machine properly. I want to get the motor fitted and wired up, find a spot for both VFD's, figure out how I'm going to arrange the switches and put in as much (or all) of the wiring as possible. However, the main column is sitting on four castors which I'm worried are getting close to their limit. If I go ahead and load 32kg of motor on it's cast iron swing mount, plus a load of other stuff into the machine, one of the castors will fold up and the machine will go over perhaps even on top of me. So I'm either going to make a dolly to mount this base casting onto with four huge castors I have here and fix the column to that, so that I can still wheel it around for access, or I will make a heavy duty rotator/turntable so it can be spun around on the spot. Each has it's pros and cons.
My newly-aquired mount plate for the tilting table:
The top slide:
And the base casting. The took up most of my day being in a very rotten cosmetic condition as well as being full of gungy crud. It was thick with soft red 1960's filler much of which I stripped off with a scraper to avoid making too much dist, then I plastered it with body filler and hit it with a belt sander to smooth it down before going over with a DA. After that I gave it 2 heavy coats of high-build UPOL primer and when that was cured, the Tractol green on top. It's by no means a perfect job but that's not important to me. It'll be a working machine and this part is sure to be chipped and bashed about as it's used so how I'm satisfied with how it's come out.
Now that these parts are done I can get on with assembling the main machine properly. I want to get the motor fitted and wired up, find a spot for both VFD's, figure out how I'm going to arrange the switches and put in as much (or all) of the wiring as possible. However, the main column is sitting on four castors which I'm worried are getting close to their limit. If I go ahead and load 32kg of motor on it's cast iron swing mount, plus a load of other stuff into the machine, one of the castors will fold up and the machine will go over perhaps even on top of me. So I'm either going to make a dolly to mount this base casting onto with four huge castors I have here and fix the column to that, so that I can still wheel it around for access, or I will make a heavy duty rotator/turntable so it can be spun around on the spot. Each has it's pros and cons.
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Motoring right along now. I lifted the base off the floor with my swing crane and removed the castors then let it down onto timber battens. Then I wheeled over the main column which by now weighs a good quarter of a ton, slung the front on the crane, pulled the castors off the front and rolled it over the base casting, then let it down and removed the rear wheels. A bit nerve-wracking but it went without incident. So I bolted it down and then cleaned the masking tape and glue off the top slide and slid tha into place too.
Well, I say I bolted it down. Previously I had fitted the feeds gearbox, the vertical feed rod and housing, the y-axis feed gears and screw, the selector mechanism all into the column. Well, seems I failed to spot this:
So I have to either dismantle all of the above again just to loosen the feeds gearbox enough to get this bolt in, or take a chance at popping the cover off that fully-sealed auto reversing box and wrestle with the fly-apart sprag clutch needle rollers trying to get them all back together and oil-tight when it was frustrating enough doing it on the bench.
Ah well, can't win them all
Well, I say I bolted it down. Previously I had fitted the feeds gearbox, the vertical feed rod and housing, the y-axis feed gears and screw, the selector mechanism all into the column. Well, seems I failed to spot this:
So I have to either dismantle all of the above again just to loosen the feeds gearbox enough to get this bolt in, or take a chance at popping the cover off that fully-sealed auto reversing box and wrestle with the fly-apart sprag clutch needle rollers trying to get them all back together and oil-tight when it was frustrating enough doing it on the bench.
Ah well, can't win them all
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Will a cap head bolt slip in Pete? and you could go even further by taking a bit off the head in the lathe tooMotoring right along now. I lifted the base off the floor with my swing crane and removed the castors then let it down onto timber battens. Then I wheeled over the main column which by now weighs a good quarter of a ton, slung the front on the crane, pulled the castors off the front and rolled it over the base casting, then let it down and removed the rear wheels. A bit nerve-wracking but it went without incident. So I bolted it down and then cleaned the masking tape and glue off the top slide and slid tha into place too.
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Well, I say I bolted it down. Previously I had fitted the feeds gearbox, the vertical feed rod and housing, the y-axis feed gears and screw, the selector mechanism all into the column. Well, seems I failed to spot this:
View attachment 419747
So I have to either dismantle all of the above again just to loosen the feeds gearbox enough to get this bolt in, or take a chance at popping the cover off that fully-sealed auto reversing box and wrestle with the fly-apart sprag clutch needle rollers trying to get them all back together and oil-tight when it was frustrating enough doing it on the bench.
Ah well, can't win them all
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No, but I've been thinking I could cut the head off this one, thread it into the hole and use a nut.
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There you go mate..sorted
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That’s EXACTLY what I was going to suggest!
