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  1. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    So finally some good machining content in this post . . . I researched gear repair and came to the conclusion that filling the gears in with silicon-bronze via a TIG brazing process would be the best idea: Brazing does not need nearly as much heat, so there is less chance of the heat warping...
  2. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    One note: These postings are not really chronological at this point since I did a lot of this work over the winter. I think it makes a bit more sense to combine all the work on one part of the machine into a single posting at this point. The current status of the project is that is is mostly...
  3. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    Its easy to post lots of stuff when I'm catching up on a project I've been working on for the last few months. . . .so here is another: I took lid off the headstock to inspect in there after I'd drained the oil. Here is what it looks like: Full disclosure: This picture was actually taken...
  4. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    The brake drum is the inside of the triple pulley that is driven by the motor. The pulley is obviously removed at this point. I've seen some lathes that use an external strap on a drum for a brake, but this seems like a good idea where you just use an existing motorcycle part. As for the VFD, I...
  5. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    Once I got the machine inside and warmed up, I started into checking stuff out, disassembling, cleaning and fixing up worn and broken stuff. Here is what it looked like under the cover on the side of the headstock. Lots of dirt and old chips. Even the motor that you can see down below is...
  6. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    Unfortunately I only got the slider block assembly. It looked pretty bad in that it was all brown and wouldn't move so I was scared it was rusted up. Once I soaked it in the parts washer and got it disassembled, all of the brown stuff came off, so it was just old congealed oil. Once I...
  7. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    I'll just make one more quick historical post before I move on to the restoration of the machine. This is what the machine looked like when I first saw it. Actually this was after about 10 minutes of moving piles of stuff and boxes that were stored in front of and on top of it. There are still...
  8. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    The first task was to get this beast off of the trailer. Getting it on was easy; the picker truck did that. I did have a plan to get it off though. I live on an acreage a few km SW of Calgary that we moved into a few years ago. It included a nice heated shop (3 1/2-ish car garage sized) that I...
  9. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    Here's a closer look at the control panel: The machine is a made in Taiwan clone of the English Colchester Triumph lathe. As near as I can tell it was made in about 1978 (that is the date on the motor label). It has a 5HP 3-phase 208V motor, and appeared to be in pretty good shape. It was...
  10. JohnW

    My "New" Lathe

    It was pretty late and dark by the time I got home. As you can see in the last picture the sun was almost setting while we were loading it up. We first had to unload the other equipment at Protospace in the NE, and I live a few km SW of the City, so I just parked it on the driveway when I got...
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