Boxford Shaper Vertical feed

eBay. There are two sellers at least. Search 'imperial tapered pin'. They are made to BS 46-1.

Barry, that detente that allows you to rotate the pawl and switch from horizontal to vertical feed...

You have a lovely knurled knob where I have a crummy grub screw.

What is under that knurl? Is it a screw or a spring loaded pin?

Just checked - it is just a knurled screw which locates in the two holes in the rotating pawl bit.

Rgrds Barry

Splendid. Can never get enough info... Next question. Does this rough-cut welded doo-hickey look like original Boxford or home-made?

Mines a bit smoother round the edges - but still a bit rough looking.

Maybe a welding apprentice did a job lot on Friday afternoon

Reds Barry

Mine isn't much better, but I think a previous owner has tidied it up a bit.
The ratchet was also retained by a simple grub screw, but I've just made a knurled thumb screw, after adding the vertical feed.
An interesting observation though is that whilst the horizontal feed worked fine before, after adding the vertical feed cluster, it was catching on the inside of the guard.
It seems that the outer of the guard was a bit high and forward, so I slotted the screw holes and moved it a bit.
This freed everything off nicely, but so much that the horizontal feed axle now turns easily enough that it no longer ratchets, just oscillating back and forth due to the wear in the bronze nut behind the table.
I've effected a temporary repair by adding an O ring behind the micrometer dial and compressing it up against the guard; this allows just enough friction for the horizontal feed to ratchet, rather than just wobbling about in the backlash.
I now need to work out how to extract the feed nut from behind the table.

Bill

Edited By peak4 on 04/08/2022 22:17:31

I usually wind the handle until the resistance from the screw feels like enough to make the pawl disengage.

Here is a bit that bugs me. To assemble it you have to catch the 1/8" key in the ratchet wheel, then slide in the shaft hoping it all lines it up. But the keyway in the shaft is not long enough and it was cut with a side cutter so the depth fades out at the end.

To compensate my key is kind of loose and short. Even so it is wedging itself in before reaching the home position. Sorely tempted to square it off with an endmill. Maybe separate the ratchets with a shim washer so the key doesn't depend on my sintered bronze bushing to knock it out.