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Working on my South Bend 9C

YotaBota said:
You could buy a nice shiny new 14 gauge extension cord, cut off the receptacle end and wire that end to the motor. Easier than putting on a new plug and you get the length and colour of new wire you want at the same time.
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Or better yet a free extension cord pulled out of the trash can down the street cuz it had a few cuts in it........ LOL!
 
Susquatch said:
Or better yet a free extension cord pulled out of the trash can down the street cuz it had a few cuts in it........ LOL!
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Our local grocery store use to have a 10 yard dumpster bin in their parking lot that was a dedicated E waste drop off,
I was in there a couple of times a week cutting off power cords and rescuing perfectly good equipment.
They finally hauled it away and it didn't return, I guess they weren't making enough money with all of us scavengers diving in.
 
ER32 collet chuck has arrived so I can carry over much of my tooling and workflow from my wood lathe!
 

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It'll need:
- New felts and of course a flush/deep clean and oils
- Figure out mystery noise from motor/counter shaft
- Probably a few replacement gears
- Ideally a new lead screw
- Probably fine to leave the weird motor placement, with appropriate measures taken to address belt tension
- New belt
- Fix wobbly gear cover
- Look into backlash in all the dials
- Get/make a cover

What did I miss from our inspection?
- Electronic lead screw conversion 😉
- Got a NOS spare spindle which is nice!
 
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This would be my order of go...
1) New felts and of course a flush/deep clean and oils
2) Figure out mystery noise from motor/counter shaft
3) New belt
4) Get/make a cover
5) Fix wobbly gear cover
6) Probably fine to leave the weird motor placement, with appropriate measures taken to address belt tension
7) Look into backlash in all the dials
8) Probably a few replacement gears
...
20) Ideally a new lead screw



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That's very sensible! Just gotta figure out the felt situation.

That one really worn gear y'all spotted is part of the spindle, I think. Most likely to need replacement and the worst to do haha
 
DavidR8 said:
This would be my order of go...
1) New felts and of course a flush/deep clean and oils
2) Figure out mystery noise from motor/counter shaft
3) New belt
4) Get/make a cover
5) Fix wobbly gear cover
6) Probably fine to leave the weird motor placement, with appropriate measures taken to address belt tension
7) Look into backlash in all the dials
8) Probably a few replacement gears
...
20) Ideally a new lead screw



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Notice how @DavidR8 has left lots of room between items 8 and 20?
 
On the felts, look into getting them printed from PETG...
I saw buddy from Inheritance Machine do that for one of his restorations
 
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