Member postings for Mark Tyldesley

Hi Ian

im looking for atleast a foot of each thickness between 0.006 and 0.010, maybe upto 12 thou ,it has to be dead flat, as I need to experiment on some valves

Hi All

Does anyone have any idea who supplies blue spring steel sheet, required thickness between 0.006" and 0.010" , a project I'm working on has stalled unless I can find supplier.

Any help with this and contacts,I would be very grateful

cheers

mark

Hi Joe

yea mines exactly the same as yours, iv bolted mine directly to concrete floor, made it very sturdy now, I checked the level and found it to be very much spot on, don't think any adjustment will be required although I still have to give it a test, and that should be any day now!.

let me know how you get on

cheers

mark

Hi

i managed to CH the slideways, first one turned out fine, the second decided to revert to a banana! Very slightly, managed to straighten it and have now began rebuild, a few mods to refit but nothing to serious all due to the milling i had to perform on bars, so hoping it will be back in steam anyday now.

thank you all for your advice ect

mark

Hi ronan

i did a test on a washer last night, after three sessions the washer surface was hard, took a file to it, and was unable to score it, so first results are good, i shall let you know how i get on with theses larger items hopefully today

mark

Thanks,

so basically once i have re heated after covering in power, i can apply more powder to increase thickness ? If i do this two or three times then quench i should be ok

Hi,

i have some slide bars to case harden,and i will be using Beta no1 case hardening compound, i understand the principle, just i would like it clarified that after heating and covering in powder and reheating, do i quench prior to repeating a second application, or can i apply more powder after second reheat?

thanks

Mark

Edited By Mark Tyldesley on 29/11/2014 15:10:24

Hi george

looking at your stand the only difference i can see is that yours have the footplate at bottom of stand, other than that it looks similar in all aspects. I checked for squareness and it seems to be spot on, having placed it on floor without feet it all ready feels more stable, so bolting it down directly seems the way forward, shimming to level it maybe a problem but will come to that once its all in place, what method did you use to level, adjustable feet? Or shim under stand or between cab n lathe

mark

Edited By Mark Tyldesley on 29/10/2014 16:49:12

Hi Lathejack

yea im not to happy with this supplied stand, just about to construct a concrete platform to raise things up abit, as im going to lose 2" with no feet under stand, just hoping that once its firmly bolted down the stand will be more ridged, thats the plan anyway!. I was going to try some turning with it before i moved it yet again but the micro switch on chuck guard failed, so anew one is suppose to be on its way from warco on warranty, so lathe has yet to be switched on! Gives me achance to order afew bits n bobs in meantime, surprising how much you need just to make astart ! But  Ido have anew mill to try out, Need to make some slippers for the traction engine slide!

mark

Edited By Mark Tyldesley on 29/10/2014 05:27:26

Yea i have to agree with you, its defo not ridged enough, i do think once its bolted down it should be acceptable! We will see!

mark

I will attempt to take a video if possible! Just had another thought the spacing between each foot is not that big, maybe the spread isn't wide enough, its like balancing an inverted triangle! You know what i mean!

mark

Martin,

iv tried everything in the book! No matter what i do the lathe rocks, it could well be the stand is not sturdy enough, and theres defo movement in those machine stands,on concrete floor ,but i will give it one last go with concreting the studs down and using the nuts to adjust stand

So your building a traction engine! I have a 3" Burrell !

Mark

Edited By Mark Tyldesley on 27/10/2014 22:04:11

Hi Nick

i shall be trying that out, although my thread studs will be embedded in concrete base, if I can get stand to be rigid enough with adjustment nuts tightened , problem solved! If not it's will be bolted down directly

mark

Hi Martin,

The concrete blocks are a great idea, but this stand that came with lathe just doesn't like been on adjustable feet, have to say the machine feet do have play in between bolt and foot, no matter how much you adjust them the lathe wobbles at a slight touch, hence the stand needs bolting down directly to floor, I'm still debating to attempt to add two nuts to studs concreted in for stand,and use them as away to adjust lathe, that's if it doesn't wobble, otherwise I will bolt directly to floor and shim tail stock either under stand or under tail stock mounts

mark

J

so realy I need to shim from the bottom of stand? That still leaves how to raise the stand to shim from there,

Hi Thor Jason

iv studied your pics, and it looks an excellent way to solve the problem, I'm sure the problem I have is theses stupid machine stands, there's just to much movement in them, and the stand does need to be screwed to the floor to aid stiffness, I phoned warco up and they insisted the stand should be bolted down, so bolted it will be! May pour some concrete to form a platform and sink the bolts into concrete while wet save on drilling, cause I'm going to lose some height if directly bolted to floor. Once that's done with stand secured and lathe bolted to stand, I'm still left with alittle shimming to correct any twist, I know the advice is shim under stand, but no chance of lifting all that, so shall be shimming under tail stock, was thinking of using alittle jack once bolts loosened to give enough gap to place shim! Someone going to tell me don't do that I know!

mark

If you have any thoughts on bolting stand to floor and ways to level the lathe, be pleased to hear from you

mark

If you have any thoughts on bolting stand to floor and ways to level the lathe, be pleased to hear from you

mark

Hi Joe

yea it's a nice lathe! Regarding this wobble, iv come to the conclusion it's the stand, not ridged enough,plus some slight movement in feet fixtures, bolting to floor direct would solve it, just having to move the lathe again is a nightmare!

Hi All,

Just back from hols, and set about setting up the lathe with the adjustable mounting feet, managed to get it all leveled out, but lathe wobbles on the stand if pushed slightly, which in turn is going to effect lathe bed ect,Something tells me this is unacceptable and maybe I should bolt the the stand to floor and do all adjusting from tail stock end, or can I get away with this slight wobble? Suggestions very welcome!

Edited By Mark Tyldesley on 27/10/2014 10:23:15