Member postings for OuBallie

Eric,

A photo/details appreciated please.

Geoff - I have clamped down, for now that is.

Had no problem leveling my BH600G, but I was fortunate in that the previous owner has used studs in the two turrets, with nuts rop and bottom to raise and lower the machine.

Double nuts top and bottom of course to lock the height, with no faffing around searching for packing.

I recommend this method without hesitation.

Photos if anyone is interested.

Geoff - I need to 'Calm down'

MyTimeMedia,

You ARE doing a 'ME TOO' by apeing the Yahoo Groups layout with that 1/3 column of adverts on the RH side. (I check Yahoo Groups regularly, hoping that Marissa Mayer has been fired and the Groups rolled back to their previously useable format, but no luck so far)

Does no-one use their own imagination anymore?

Is it that 'proper' web designers are no longer employed as it's cheaper to copy?

MTM, do a Yahoo on this site and I'm gone as well!

Geoff - Can nobody do a web site/page that doesn't look like the kitchen sink!

Thanks Doug.

John, I've used the same for my cutters, reamers, taps etc.

Nice one Neil! Cheered me up as well.

Geoff - Our town's equivalent of Pound Shop here I come.

Edited By OuBallie on 13/09/2013 11:39:53

I've had '123D Catch' on both my iPad and iPhone for ages.

This photo app takes a series of photos and converts them into a 3-D model.

Not sure how it compares though, but '123D Catch' does require lots of photos to be taken.

Geoff - Nothing new, just improves..

Just had a look at the 'new' Popular Patchwork layout.

My first impression is positive but;

1) BH! Advertising taking up 1/3 of my iPad's screen down the RH side, and very off putting and distracting,

2) Easy access to My Account appears gone, but this could be because I'm not registered,

3) Funtionality has NOT been destroyer ala Yahoo thank goodness. Do so at your peril though!

4) Except for the 'old' LH column no longer there & 1), the new layout doesn't have me screaming as Yahoo has, BUT that 1/3 advertising column may well do so.

5) DON'T do a Yahoo and force it down our throats without getting feedback from those who count, us the users, who bring the clicks that you sell to advertisers.

6) Turn this site into a Facebook look-alike and I'm gone! Yahoo did and I left.

Geoff - There is hope that not all providers are like the Yahoo idiots.

New photos added, with the rack gear drive at the rear, thanks to Bazyle pointing out my error.

Appreciate all the comments and suggestions.

I just need to finish the Cross-slide then I will have a look at what to do about the oiling of Apron & Gearbox.

Geoff - 12hr kip last night!

MTM should take heed of what's happening over on Yahoo before they make any major changes.

Yahoo did without even testing beforehand, and is now being lambasted over doing so, with users leaving in their droves.

I no longer use Yahoo, as they have destroyed the usability of their once supreme Groups.

Some described the Groups as 'old fashioned', but they originated from ListServe and worked perfectly well.

Please don't fall into the 'Change because we can' trap.

Geoff - Embarrassed to say what happened yesterday, except that 'I now need to mend something else!'

All misleading photos have now been removed.

Easier to so than add extra annotations.

New photos to follow ASAP

Geoff - Workshop here I come.

Diane,

I'd be interested, as I am in need of one.

Geoff - Three classic cars need restoring.

Booger.

Had to do a search for SCAYT

First time I've come across that acronym.

Geoff - Still not too old to learn thank goodness.

Bazyle,

Oh bollocks, is all I can say!

I put in from the wrong effing side! How bleep bleep clever of me!

Will correct this glaring error and replace the photo.

All of the oil channels are covered by the Saddle, but I'm now able to visually check where to put spring oiling points, the easiest being above the reservoir that has the copper tube leading from it.

Yes, your comments re the drilled holes filling with oil did cross my mind after I posted, but thought I would wait to see who pointed it out first

Still means that that copper tube would, I think, still gulp any oil, thus prevent any getting to the rear channel and holes.

Will get back to the Apron as soon as T-slots done.

Geoff - Time to have words whilst looking in a mirror. Can't believe what I did.

Bazyle,

I intend to take the front cover off of the gearbox in order to see exactly what all those holes are aimed at.

Thanks for the pointer re the bearings.

Need to finish off the extra T-slots in the Cross-slide first though, so with luck Friday.

Geoff - Using the Tom Senior M1 in anger for the first time, & what a good 'little' machine.

New Photo Album created showing the abomination that is the method of getting oil to the Norton gearbox's gears.

At least that's how I see it, but I could of course be totally wrong.

As can be seen, there are screw-in 'Oil' plugs either side of the Control Base, with a thick felt 'Oil Gasket' under said 'Base', covering a multitude of holes strategically drilled in the gearboxes' top.

Now unless I am completely missing the plot, you would need to at least fully cover that piece of felt before any oil hopefully dripped through any of the holes, with most escaping down the sided of the gearbox.

The 'Control Base' isn't needed due to VFD with remote being fitted, so I'm looking for a more positive method of getting oil into the gearbox.

Spring oilers into each hole a possibility.

Just thought of another more simple solution though. With a hinged cover over the 'oil reservoir', oilers won't be needed, just squirt oil straight down the holes! . Woohoo, brain actually in gear this morning! Wonders will never cease!

Suggestions once more please.

Geoff - Brain will now go into reverse

Bazyle,

Don't know what happened between my attempt to remove the collar over the Leadscrew connection to the gearbox output failed, but on Sunday morning it just slid away with ease, thus allowing me to knock the spring pin out and remove said screw.

As requested, new photos uploaded this time with a measuring stick in position. Sorry about the first lot.

One thing that should have hit me between the eyes as soon I put the Apron on the work bench, was that the oil reservoir beneath the 'Oil' plug, on the RH side of the saddle, was NOT connected to the oil channels, therefore, a complete waste of space!

You could have merrily squirted oil in all day, but NOT a drop would have found its way to the gears or shafts in the Apron.

I have, meanwhile, opened that reservoir to the channels, BUT all that will now happen in that the oil will disappear either down the nearest oil hole to the first shaft, or that copper pipe that ends somewhere amongst the gears, with not a drop getting to the rear oil channel.

A solution is called for, and the only one I can think of right now is to drill holes in strategic positions and fit spring oilers, and block off the oil channel where deemed necessary.

With the Leadscrew removed, I've now been able to suspend the Apron in place, so now easy to determine the best positions for the new oilers.

All suggestions are welcome and needed right now please.

I sincerely hope that Anthony Mount reads this, as I'm not sure if he has yet to remove the Apron from his BH600G, as he hasn't some so at the end of his series.

If not Anthony, PLEASE check that the RH oil reservoir IS connected to the oil channels!

If anyone reading this post knows of other owners of BH600 and equivalent lathes, please advise the, to do the same.

Let me know if further photos are required.

I've also discovered what I can only describe as a 'Hit-and-Miss' method of getting oil to the gears in the Norton gearbox, that made me shudder. I've made a new Photo Album and will be doing a separate post.

Bill,

Before that French guy, colleagues and I never pronounced them/it as a word.

Would be interesting to see who comes up with what to flesh out A.S.A.P.

Geoff - Finishing the extra T-slots in Cross-slide today.

Any address that has the word 'click/s' in it I bin straight away.

Rant/

It's time companies woke up to the fact that hackers/criminals operate like this, to suck the unweary/unsuspecting amongst us into clicking the link.

Why don't they have a direct link, instead of this kind of BS?

/Rant

Geoff - Finished uploading photos.

Edited By OuBallie on 10/09/2013 16:50:49

Thanks for that John.

News to me!

Must check my Boxford now.

Geoff - One of the reasons I joined this forum - useful info!

Reminds me that the motor on my Maximat V10P would get very very hot, too hot in fact to touch, just doing 'normal' light work.

Made me very concerned, but it never produced any whisps of smoke.

Found out that the company was penny-pinching with regard to the motor frame design by using aluminum in their construction if memory serves, and something that that model suffered from.

Geoff - Lathe mods continue.

Bazyle,

Ah, didn't think of having a rule in the photos, and I AM always moaning when they aren't!

I must, must put myself in the shoes of someone else trying to tackle this for the first time as well.

Hmm, I need to buy a roll of copper tubing now, as I will be doing a modification to the way the gears in the gearbox are lubricated, photos of the present method added to the original Folder

Have more photos to add, but I had had it by the time I posted yesterday, and they need to be annotated first. I posted too few too soon me thinks now.

Will rectify my error ASAP and post when done. I remember a French colleague actually pronouncing ASAP as a word, with much glee, there being nothing similar in the French language.

Geoff - BH it's cold! Feels it after the heat we've had.

Ah, I was using the iPad app to check contents.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Nick.

Getting a "Purchase Error" on the app. Don't you just like software!

Geoff - Done for the day

Edited By OuBallie on 06/09/2013 17:19:02