RF-25 Belt-sizes and Table Stop Info Please

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the warning - I'll suck it and see.

Jon

As a Post Script, here are the table stops I made. Decided to add a short spigot to engage with the outside of the dovetail slot to keep them central...

I also needed a replacement thumb-screw for the Y-axis scale...

So far my cheapy v-belts seem just fine but the size in the manual is wrong and the shorter one does appear to need to be an A30 rather than A31. Many thanks to Simon for his help with the belts and the stops.

As a primer I bought Harold Hall's Workshop Practice books on milling and made myself a set of clamps along with a rack...

I suspect it won't stay that tidy for long 

Jon

Edited By Jon Gibbs on 09/02/2016 13:49:46

Edited By Jon Gibbs on 09/02/2016 13:50:47

Hopefully, you won't have this problem, but my Warco RF25 shredded its primary belt within 6 months from new.

When fitting the replacement, (bought from a local belt/bearing factor) I aligned the motor pulley with the intermediate pulley. (it was out!) This entailed shifting the motor on its mounting plate. About 14 years on, the original secondary, and my early life replacement, belts are still going strong, and look to be in pretty good condition.

Howard

Hi Howard,

Thanks very much for the suggestion - I'll have a quick look at the pulley alignment.

...but my machine is 20 years old and seems to have been well used. So, I suspect that if it was shredding belts, then that niggle might have been ironed out by now.

Thanks again

Jon

Nice looking parts you've made there Jon. I've got a similar box of bits containing a few shop bought components amongst my home made bits. None of the commercial tee nuts I've collected fit as well as the ones I've made but they come in handy as packing sometimes!

Vic,

Thanks

I must admit that one motive for making, over buying, was that the commercial clamp sets for the T-nut size I have on the table (i.e 14mm) take M12 studding which seems a bit OTT to me and also meant that the M10 studding I inherited with the mill was scrap. So my bits are all sized for M10.

Jon