Busy Bee lathe DF-1237G motor?

[David]

@grease monkey I pulled the crossslide gib after dinner.
It's shaped like a parallelogram as would be expected.
It is 13-5/8" long
It is .411" tall when sitting as it would be installed as shown in the picture.
The thick end (nearest the operator when installed) is .357"
The thin end is .198"

 

[Tom Kitta]

Please define small for the 3ph?

I 'm thinking of swapping out the dc motor on my lathe for a 3ph and VFD, I already have the VFD, not a lot of space to work with so might be a bit tight.

2hp - 10hp

 

[slow-poke]

2hp - 10hp

That 2HP sounds interesting, I should have checked your location, shipping would probably be the deal breaker because I'm in Ottawa.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

I found a used Baldor 3ph 2hp on Craig's list and adepted it.

 

[grease monkey]

@grease monkey I pulled the crossslide gib after dinner.
It's shaped like a parallelogram as would be expected.
It is 13-5/8" long
It is .411" tall when sitting as it would be installed as shown in the picture.
The thick end (nearest the operator when installed) is .357"
The thin end is .198"
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perfect! thank You sir! now to find myself a piece of dura bar and get to machining!

 

[David]

perfect! thank You sir! now to find myself a piece of dura bar and get to machining!

Make sure you check out Keith Rucker's channel as he does a 3 (or 4?) part series on making a new gib from scratch.

 

[grease monkey]

@grease monkey I pulled the crossslide gib after dinner.
It's shaped like a parallelogram as would be expected.
It is 13-5/8" long
It is .411" tall when sitting as it would be installed as shown in the picture.
The thick end (nearest the operator when installed) is .357"
The thin end is .198"
View attachment 62177

so that relief I see is where the set screw rests correct? the other end the screw comes to rest directly at the end of the gib? I cant imagine that by the time the taper comes to the end, there's much material left for a set screw relief... so a piece of material 1/2" sq 16" long will be plenty, give me somewhere to clamp and then cut to length when done

 

[grease monkey]

Make sure you check out Keith Rucker's channel as he does a 3 (or 4?) part series on making a new gib from scratch.

channel as in youtube?

 

[grease monkey]

first time I ever heard of scraping.... just trying to find a source for Dura bar around here

 

[grease monkey]

ok, dura bar on its way from Terra Nova in MIssga, 3/4" x 1" @ 15" long equals 5 big greasy 3 pattie burgers! wow! better not screw this up!! $113 later and it just so happens to be on its way to a local tool shop, nice to have friends with connections, they happen to have a driver headed to terra nova for an order for them, he offered for my order to tag along with them! Thanks to Tim at West Tool in St T!! I think its time to look into a surface grinder.... Keith Rucker's video was great, I'll machine this down to size, and go from there, hopefully have this running for the M&G!!

 

[David]

I was just gonna cut up a junk table saw top to make a new one
Keith's videos were excellent. Actually gave me hope that if necessary, I could do this too.