King 1440 Re-assembly

[Tomc938]

Taking a bit of a break from the shop and backyard projects to start this thread.

So I promised some pictures. This is a King 1440 I picked up. It was taken apart several years ago, and sat in my garage form the last year as other projects kept pushing it to the bottom of the heap.

Here's some pictures of it before I picked it up:




So thankful it is on a solid, wheeled stand so I can move it around as I work on it.

There was a little surface rust on the ways on the far tailstock end. Evaporust did a great job removing that. QCGB went into the parts cleaner to get all the gunk off the gears. Cleaned up the bed, saddle, belt housing cover, QCGB, tailstock (yes, it came with one!), gave it a coat of primer and 2 coats of topcoat. Part of the reason I chose these parts to start is they were big and would clear some boxes off my workbench quickly.

Quick "Made in Canada" plug. I decided to give Home Hardware's Beautitone line of rust paint. They come in standard sizes, or you can tint them. So I ended up pretty close to the factory paint when all was said and done. I am really pleased with how smoothly it goes on, its run resistance, and price ($6 less/ litre than Tremclad). Can't say about durability yet, but I'm sure it will stand up as good as anything else in it's class.

Here's where I am to this point:




I can slowly start to put a few things together and dig through boxes looking for parts. Going to be like Christmas for a while! I'll never know what I am about to unwrap.

 

[mickeyf]

Already looks better than it has in years!

 

[djberta]

Looks great Tom.

 

[Tinker]

Looking forward to this build. I have the same lathe and I'm currently scraping in the compound slide as it was far from flat. The 2hp motor will also make way for a 3.

 

[slow-poke]

Looking great. A good restoration is a thing of beauty. My buddy did a SM a while back, better than new.

 

[David]

Looks great Tom, keep it up!

 

[Tomc938]

Good start. Small steps every day. Hopefully, just not today as I help my daughter and her boyfriend do their taxes and stain boards for the gazebo

 

[YotaBota]

I used it on the trucks bumpers (blue) and so far it's still there, no peeling or fading. Don't know how it will react to oils and cutting fluid.
The paint will skin over after a short time, month or two, so paint as much as you can in one shot. I have been able to peel the skin off and still use it but the more times I peel the shorter the time and the thicker the skin gets.

I used Dulux Metalclad on the backsplash for the lathe, it doesn't seem to care about getting splashed with oil.

Gone are the days of opening a can of paint years later and being able to just stir and go.

You should have a nice machine once running.

 

[Tomc938]

I used it the trucks bumpers (blue) and so far it's still there, no peeling or fading. Don't know how it will react to oils and cutting fluid.
The paint will skin over after a short time, month or two, so paint as much as you can in one shot. I have been able to peel the skin off and still use it but the more times I peel the shorter the time and the thicker the skin gets.

I used Dulux Metalclad on the backsplash for the lathe, it doesn't seem to care about getting splashed with oil.

Gone are the days of opening a can of paint years later and being able to just stir and go.

You should have a nice machine once running.

Thanks for the tips!

Once it's done I'll have to consider which I keep - the 1236 or the 1440.

 

[David]

Thanks for the tips!

Once it's done I'll have to consider which I keep - the 1236 or the 1440.

Are they both belt drive?

 

[Tomc938]

Are they both belt drive?

Yep.

 

[David]

Given similar machine condition, it would be a toss-up for me.

 

[YotaBota]

I would run them both for a bit and see which is more comfortable and fits you better.

 

[Tomc938]

I got a bunch of parts on the lathe today! I'll send pictures tomorrow.

Working on the saddle, cross slide and compound. Can someone tell me what this part is for?(The one circled in red). The parts list gives the very helpful label of "bolt".



The way it shows the orientation in the exploded view I can't see that it does anything - and it just pulls way up in the hole so the nut does nothing.

Give it a half turn, and it would grab on the bottom of the ways, but there are two other clamps that hold there. ( 2 flat bars in the diagram). Is it something with the apron?



And the cross feed screw and nut are badly work. Very sharp teeth on what I assume was an acme thread in the beginning. Going to want to do something on that front.