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They have some plates, unfortunately they are not quite what the book calls for. I could buy two, cut them off and weld them, but i think it might be cheaper to just suck it up and buy an angle plate, especially as its needed for later projects.

Either that or its time to build that backyard foundry I have been hankering after

Thanks, I will message them. If not maybe I can figure out how to make the angle plate from flat stock. Would be a nice excuse to buy some slot drills for my mill and borrow the old man's welder.

Hello

I would like to start working through my Workshop Practice Series books, but a good proportion of the projects, including one that underpins the rest of the series for the mill, involve using castings from College Engineering Supply. Teasingly, their site still has pictures and links for them, but you cannot add them to basket. When I emailed them about 8 months ago, they said they were out of stock. The site is still the same, with no add to basket, and another thread on this forum said they had no plans to make them anymore, back in 2016!

So I guess I am looking for an alternative to CES for these castings. The two I need first are the angle plate and the screw jack.

I know I could just buy them, or maybe make them from something else, but I like following a course 'as is' so I know I am covering everything the author intended. Am I out of luck?

Cheers

Ross

Edited By Ross Lloyd 1 on 06/06/2018 15:53:11

Do you mean putting the washer on the gear axles, where the lube nipples / horseshoe is?

Cheers

Ross

It looks like a great mill, looking forward to getting started with it. I don't have the DRO or power feed as I want to learn 'the old way' first (a touch masochistic maybe). Do you have any do's and dont's or pieces of advice you could share on the machine?

Cheers!

Ross

Haha thanks that made my day! You don't live in Aberdeen by any chance do you? Used to live there and it was seagull poop central. I thought about marketing disposable car covers and making a few bob!

I have got some lithium grease on the way, need to get a big container of machine oil too. Hopefully in a few years the lathe won't be covered in anything from the wrong end of a sparrow

Thank you very much for the comprehensive advice, I am going to give that a shot tonight after tea!

Ross

Seems to be a common thing with those lathes then. I will definitely try the paper trick.

Ross

Yeah thats true, its not deafeningly loud. Which mill do you have, out of interest? We just got done getting the WIM18 up on the bench today

Ross

Thanks George, I enjoyed that video the other day, thanks for putting it up!

Ross

Cheers George, that seems to be a popular solution so I will check it out.

Ross

Hm so it seems there wasnt any oil in the apron. We took the sight glass out, nothing emerged. So we took the drain plug out and this is all we got

Seemed to be a lot of grit in there too, so we are going to flush it out with paraffin and then refill with machine oil.

Hi Ed, thanks for replying.

Apologies for the new guy questions, please bear with me!

If I disengage the gear train does that not mean the power feed / threading functions will not work? They are driven by the gear train. I took this video with the cover off (I know, naughty but its low speed) and I think the noise is coming from the middle change gear as it seems looser. I could not see how to tighten it though.

Do you mean to undo the allen screw on the base of the banjo, move it to the right and kind of leave it flapping in the breeze, or are you just suggesting to tighten the gears and then put them back?

Sorry for the large volume of posts on my lathe, I am getting this thing set up and lots of questions are popping up!

The lathe is making some pretty ferocious rattling sounds. I have not yet applied the heavy grease to the gear wheels, I just applied some machine oil until the grease turns up. Could that be the cause of the rattle, or is this normal? It is present at all speeds and worst at high speed. Plenty of oil in the main gearbox. The source seems to be from around the chuck. The headstock cover under the square rubber plate is also quite warm to the touch. WARNING: Loud!

Edited By Ross Lloyd 1 on 04/06/2018 23:03:43

Tell a lie, under uncrating section it recommends a "heavy non slinging grease", I guess lithium covers that base

Thank you!

Thanks! Good to know. Do you put any lithium grease on your gears? I note the grizzly manual for the equivalent lathe recommends this.

In the May 25th issue of Model Engineer, there is an article about Canon Roger Davis' (hope I got the name right, am copy pasting from the blurb) conversion of his WM18 to CNC.

Can anyone tell me if this is a series spanning several issues, and if so which issues I can find it in?

Thank you

Ross

Not sure if this has been covered, but do the gears on the WM250V need lithium grease as with the grizzlys? The manual mentions the mobil gearbox oil and the 20W machine oil for all the parts with ball bearing oil nipples, but does not mention the gears.

Should I go and splash out on a tub of white lithium?

Cheers

Ross

Yeah the grizzly manual is a bit more comprehensive isnt it, cheers!

Edited By Ross Lloyd 1 on 04/06/2018 14:47:30