Member postings for Mat Stoeckle

Nice work Richard .. must be good to get your hands on the ol lathe .. I know I miss mine after a day of work away from the shop

I'm pretty sure I'm squeezing down on the rubber but I did order the 1mm (1/16 inch) stuff .. I believe you have 2mm (1/8?) stuff going right? I'll see how tight it gets without anything in there and maybe that was my problem .. the paper gasket would've been even thinner .. maybe I'll double up on the 1mm stuff ..

Back to my burning question on preload however .. there is the one locking collar right behind the main spindle bearing (front bearing) that's inside the gearbox .. how tight? and how do you even measure that?

then there's the locking collar at the tail end of the spindle .. you mentioned "get it really tight" .. but how tight is that? and how do you gauge it or what do you gauge it by? I'm really unfamiliar with preload and don't know what to wiggle to check for play or how much and where and such .. so, any info would be great to get it right-ish ..

thanks!

Hey Richard,

great to hear from you .. well, I followed your advise and bought that rubber stuff you are using .. my original cardboardy type stuff from the auto parts store leaked so I tried yours .. but still leaking … makes me think .. I got the socket cap screws in the front as tight as I’d want to go on those but you mentioned in one of your posts way back to make sure to tighten the locking collar in the back “tight” … is it possible it’s leaking through the bearing somehow because of not enough preload??

I’m selfishly happy you have the same problem because I know you’ll solve it :D so thanks for that!

Mat

Hey Richard,

I hope Uni is treating you well .. will you get a Christmas break and maybe some time to work on the lathe?

I put mine back together but I'm leaking .. from directly underneath the spindle nose .. I replaced the gasket twice already and still leaking .. wondering if you have any pointers for that area?

Hope you're well and Merry Christmas!

Mat

good luck back at uni, what are you studying?

i'm glad you got it back together and running ... much better way to leave it for now

True. I’ve been following Clough42’s videos on YouTube on that subject. But call me old fashioned. I like the good old switch levers and their clunks. Plus I think it could be a cool project to machine.

I’m in the same boat Martin .. would love to hear from someone who’s done it. I went as far as ordering the plans. It’s involved for a guy like me and my skill level for sure. One “shortcoming” they I could pick up from reading the plans is that the back wall of the QCGB has to be milled down very thin. So much so that the others go as far as saying it’ll keep the swarf out but is fragile. Why exactly that is I don’t know. I’m assuming a space issue. At any rate, would live to hear someone else’s take on it. The idea itself is hugely intriguing based on the fact that you’d reuse your existing change gears for the mechanism

Looking good! I'm always amazed how small these lathes look when you see them from afar .. nothing compared to what it feels like to deal with the individual pieces .. I guess it's because they're rather stout .. I know I can't wait to use mine again, I'm sure Herman and you feel the same way

cheers!

Phil, that's what had me worried, I wirewheeled the c**p out of it and thought I'm down to solid stuff .. then took the blowgun to it and little specs lifted off everywhere .. oh well ... I'll keep wirewheeling until nothing lifts any longer and then bondo the thing .. I just ordered a full gallon of it .. I'm talking about the stand btw for now .. haven't dealt with the bed yet ....

Hey Herman, yeah I haven’t fully decided to go that route. Phil’s method makes somewhat sense to me, leaving intact paint alone. I used a wirewheel and got this blotchy type lepropsy pattern. I’m just afraid it’ll continue to come off even with new bondo on top .. Phil, how did you ascertain the quality of the paint below?

Richard, great progress

Meh, I wouldn't worry about how long or detailed the thread becomes .. for those readers who restore their own vintage tool, the more detailed the better and any side tangent can bring up something the readers may need to know for the next step of their tool restoration .. it's community teaching and I for one can't get enough of it So, make sure you keep providing a structure of a thread that people fill with additional info

I'm about to start chiseling the paint off of my stand and bed .. I tried chemical stripping but the original filler just becomes a gooey mess .. and still sticks .. very unpleasant .. wire-wheels are messy/dusty and I can't / dont' want to afford sandblasting / dustless blasting at this point .. so, blood sweat and tears it will be with a couple of chisel pointed files .. A guy on youtube is restoring a Monarch 16 .. just came across his way of paint stripping yesterday .. check it out ... Machining 360: Monarch 16 CY restoration P15: Stripping and Painting .. Beautiful machine and great restoration .. we should all make these kinds of videos

looking good! you're doing all this work and not painting the castings .. are you pressed for time or what's your rational? The only reason I'm painting is because I figure WHILE I have it apart like this I might as well .. Looking forward to your next installment .. best threads to read with morning coffee

Hi Richard, what a great thread of your lathe restoration. Well done on all the problem solving and solution finding .. Herman, nice to see you again and thanks for mentioning this thread in yours, Phil, I subscribed to your channel and can't wait to binge watch every video, Howard, great info, thank you ..

My name is Mat and I live on the Westcoast of Canada .. I just bought myself a Colchester Student / Dominion a few weeks ago, probably the only one on the Western seaboard and like all of you, started with a general cleaning, wait, gotta take this apart .. clean .. yeah, gotta go one level deeper .. clean .. ah heck, might as well take her to bits and start over ..

Finding you guys is like finding long lost friends .. having a Colchester Student lathe in common is quite the uniting feature .. from all corners of this "blue dot" ..

I'm currently writing up my experience on the Colchester group page if anyone is interested ..

https://colchesterlathe.groups.io/g/main/topic/colchester_student_dominion/75772938?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,0,0,75772938

But I signed up here too .. so expect me to stick around

Cheers!

Mat