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[Darren]

All finished

Yes, I know the height aduster prevents access to the blade screws. I'll replace them with regular hex head cap screws.

Thanks @Brent H !

 

[Brent H]

@dfloen - you are most welcome - way to take that holder and put your skills to work “outside the box”. Very well done!! (Insert hand clap emoji) glad you have a use for that tool.

 

[Darren]

Thanks. Looks like it will be a good compliment to the blade holder I made for my HSS blade. I like that it is choked up a bit more. Probably a bit more rigid in the harder stuff.

Stay tuned for some trepanning action. I have to hurry up and build the steady rest for the V13. I'm sure my buddy in Alabama probably wants his back . He was gracious enough to lend me his to copy, but its been close to a year.

 

[6.5 Fan]

Looking good on the QCTP holder. The steady rest build will be fun to watch.

 

[Darren]

I'm finally beginning to clean up the Monarch 10ee. Using dish soap and water in a spray bottle and a parts washer with water based cleaner. The old grease must be tougher than the newer grease. This stuff is tough! Might have to break out the diesel fuel for this job!

So far the compound ways feel good from end to end, no tight or loose spots, checked after removing the screw, the screw itself looks very good and is snug on the bronze nut. The play was in the double thrust bearing assembly. Not sure how to adjust it just yet. Shims maybe?

 

[RobinHood]

A lot of the old manuals recommend the use of Kerosene for cleaning parts. That’s what I tend to use. TSP also works very well. Both still require a whole lot of elbow grease though.

 

[Darren]

I think i will use some diesel to loosen everything up, just brushed on and then try tsp. The water based stuff in the parts washer works, but takes time. The rest of the lathe won't fit in the parts washer.

edit: yea diesel is taking everything off. just dissolves it like nothing. Final cleanup with water based will probably work fine

 

[Susquatch]

I think i will use some diesel to loosen everything up, just brushed on and then try tsp. The water based stuff in the parts washer works, but takes time. The rest of the lathe won't fit in the parts washer.

edit: yea diesel is taking everything off. just dissolves it like nothing. Final cleanup with water based will probably work fine

I'm a really big fan of diesel fuel for jobs like this. I always have a little laying around from when I drain the water out of the bottom of my diesel fuel tanks.

 

[Darren]

I'm a really big fan of diesel fuel for jobs like this. I always have a little laying around from when I drain the water out of the bottom of my diesel fuel tanks.

I have some machines kicking around, so i always have a couple jerry cans

its working really well. I was trying the green approach initially, but it just doesn't cut it. The fuel is melting all the old crud. I was hoping to get the motor/generator out tonight, but once i saw that i couldn't even see the bolts, i figured an initial cleaning was in order... Good thing is that i can collect all the crud and fuel and burn it in the woodstove. Saves some wood.

 

[Darren]

I've been busy in the shop lately with customer work, auto repair, my new full-time work from home job. However, I cleared one major job out of the shop so I have a bit more room. Starting to get at the 10ee teardown in hopes to get it painted in the next week or so. Gathering up all my paint supplies, I found that my full gallon of high build primer had gone lumpy.

We will see how this works

 

[6.5 Fan]

A couple of hours, my god man crank it up to warp speed and be painting now.

 

[Darren]

LOL the SM is not the lathe i'm painting....


i should have put some ball bearings in the can! doh

Edit: OK, handful of bearings and a 5/8 nut is in there.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

That's one of those times you triple check you're in low range before flipping the clutch lol

 

[Darren]

That's one of those times you triple check you're in low range before flipping the clutch lol

Definitely ....40 rpm is enough, 320 and we'd have a red ceiling.

 

[Mcgyver]

I found that my full gallon of high build primer had gone lumpy.

Thats funny, nice creative use. A million years ago I rigged up a crank running off a faceplate connect to hinged board. Baseball glove breaker inner....yes, lots of duct tape was involved and it sort of worked lol

 

[Darren]

Getting it a bit more stripped down, handles and covers off. Keep finding more and more thick gunk. It's like tar. I think the next step is to get it completely stripped then chemical dipped. I didn't want to go that far with it but I can't work with it like this.

 

[PeterT]

Maybe you have already come across this Youtube video series FWIW. I haven't watched much if it. Its a bit slow at times but does show some of the intricacies of the business end of the machine.

The Monarch 10EE 7000.00 Mistake: Spindle Removal​

 

[Dabbler]

The new spindle he does the repair with came from an unknown viewer on Canada -- Yay Canada!

 

[Darren]

Maybe you have already come across this Youtube video series FWIW. I haven't watched much if it. Its a bit slow at times but does show some of the intricacies of the business end of the machine.

The Monarch 10EE 7000.00 Mistake: Spindle Removal​

Yes, I saw that. He really lucked out finding a replacement spindle from a viewer! I checked mine already and it is very good.

I need to get a better d1-3 chuck for it. The one it came with is pretty crappy and not worth the time. And so begins the rabbit hole of retooling yet another lathe...

 

[Dabbler]

And so begins the rabbit hole of retooling yet another lathe...

ah yes, tooling. the *real* cost of any new machine...