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Finally cut my first chips with the mill :D

Edited By Canobi on 17/11/2017 12:09:20

She's nearly there guys, I can almost smell the cutting oil...

The lower pulley section is back on the mill now and runs very smoothly

Needed to find a reamer I could use with the limited equipment I have, which held up precedings for a bit. Luckily I managed to score a precision 1" chucking reamer on ebay last week that had only been used once, so I was still nice and sharp and didn't mar the brass.

I'm now making a holder for the drive sleeve. Though not seen, it has a 12mm shank which will be held by a 2MT collet in the tailstock.

Not much left to do now...

Edited By Canobi on 13/09/2017 23:57:52

Edited By Canobi on 13/09/2017 23:59:21

I got the drive sleeve bushing out, but because of the shoulder, I used my lathe to thin the brass enough for me to pull it out with pliers:

Edited By Canobi on 27/08/2017 11:38:33

I went ahead with the vacuum chamber to prime the oilite bushings, and it worked a treat

It transpires I have a Mk1, apparently distinguishable by which side of the machine the quills fine feed is (mine is on the left, Mk2s are on the right).

The inner drive sleeve (thanks for dropping the correct name for it John) and small clusters still need a good clean , which I can do now they're appart, Ill probably get a better idea of what's what then.

Finally gathered all the necessities and got my degassing chamber down from the loft, which I'll be using to prime the oilite bushings.

After having at it, I finally got the planetary section disassembled but may have hit a snag.

It might just be me but it kinda looks like the bushing butted up to a shoulder, can anyone confirm that?

If it is, any ideas on how to remove the bushing?

If I turn my press bar down to fit the bore from this side, it won't be wide enough to catch the bushing on it's way through. Annoyingly it fits just right if pushed in from the gear side.

Hi folks

Ergh, gathering everything I need is taking ages on such a small budget, but I'm nearly there.

Bushings are in (got two sets just in case), as well as the circlip pliers. Just wating for the oil to arrive, and for me to get an apropriate piece of bar to use on them. Last months budget went on a desperately needed metal band saw, having been donated quite a bit of stock materials, it was starting to become like the saying "water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink" lol.

I made small progress with the lower pulley section, though I didn't need a bar, it was so thin on the one side I was able to prise is out. Judging by how stress resistant it was when bending it, I don't think it was an oilite. Since wear can hide and fill the gaps of an oilite, I snapped a piece off along the thickest area to see if there was any evidence of holes or pockets running through the fracture:

As can be seen, it appears to be solid so I'm guessing the other one will be too.

Regarding oil preload. I've seen people use hands and whatnot to press oil throughout a bushing, but was wondering, would using my vacuum chamber work?

I made one for moulding/casting resins and silicone but it occured to me that it might draw out the air and fill the bushings that way, I could warm them up a bit in the oil to aid the process and leave them to cool in the vacuum.

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That's awesome, thank you so much :D

This is all great info guys, Thanks

I found a perfect oilite for the base which is 1" x 1.1/8" x 1" bore, but no 2" with the same ID/OD. There's one with a 1.1/4" so may get that one and skim it to size if I can't find an exact match.

Not sure about old though, she's a whippersnapper next to my 1930s flat belt Grayson lathe ♡

Runout was an astonishing 1.4mm when I got her, managed to whittle it down to .1mm (.003 inch), Not bad for a total beginner and an old lathe.

Edited By Canyon Wren on 23/05/2017 01:29:55

Yep, right icon but I should have been using a direct link which I'm not used to using.

Here she is from the other side

I would love to know how you did that, can't seem to make it work my end.

Edited By Canyon Wren on 23/05/2017 00:49:53

Damn! thought I had it then, hang on...

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Edited By Canyon Wren on 23/05/2017 00:43:32