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Cleaned rust and grime off ways. Dissassembled entire carriage, cross slide, compound slide and cleaned througherly. (Mostly) put back together. Motion much smoother now in main area, though travel still stiff at tailstock end, not too worried about that as no one will be cutting anything down there anyway I suspect. Its better than it was anyway. | Cleaned rust and grime off ways. Dissassembled entire carriage, cross slide, compound slide and cleaned througherly. (Mostly) put back together. Motion much smoother now in main area, though travel still stiff at tailstock end, not too worried about that as no one will be cutting anything down there anyway I suspect. Its better than it was anyway. | ||
At some point someone has added a gearbox to the rack & pinion, which is great expect that it gets in the way of one of the bolts that holds the saddle to the apron. If you want to take the whole thing apart, you will have to take the gear box off. there are 2 more countersunk screws behind the large gear, which is held in place by a pin (tap it out) and a whole damn lot of friction (WD40 and lots of leavering) | |||
Artag has kindly donated a step pulley which has aproximatly the correct dimensions, the bore needs enlarging though which means I (or someone) need access to the 3 in 1. trying to do this on the pillar drill would probably make it wobbly. | Artag has kindly donated a step pulley which has aproximatly the correct dimensions, the bore needs enlarging though which means I (or someone) need access to the 3 in 1. trying to do this on the pillar drill would probably make it wobbly. | ||
