Hi forum,

I've got beautiful G.Vernier FV 3 TO the other day.
Attachment 376535

The machine has seen better days. It wasn't running for some time. All of the gear boxes came completely dry. It is also missing some handles and other bits and pieces. The head is missing a draw bar and one of the jaws in the holder.

After fixing the wiring I've got everything kinda moving with no particular luck in moving Y axis (the reason will follow up). So I decided to give it a good clean, opened the pandora box....
there isn't much information available on the internet, except for one french forum and Ewan's thread in this forum I couldn't find anything else.

IMG_1903.jpg
IMG_1904.jpg

The rotating table wasn't a piece of cake. Packed with rust...

IMG_1907.jpg
IMG_1910.jpg
IMG_1909.jpg
Took a little bit of time to figure out how dials are secured also somebody in her previous life was trying to seal oil leaks with silicon, that didn't help much when I was trying to remove the front case, but finally.
IMG_1908.jpg
IMG_1915.jpg

The reason for my Y-axis not being good... No balls in the bearing, every single one of them is in the inside the case

IMG_1930.jpg

Some more photos

IMG_1922.jpg

IMG_1926.jpg

All of the bearings have enormous slack ... ~ 1mm.

The auto feed and main gearbox is yet to come off. I have a problem with auto feed gearbox see photo
IMG_19121.jpg

How to remove the marked cap?

Bearings question, I have sizes but I'd like to know if I can use normal bearings all do they need to be high precision. If anybody can suggest.

I'd like to hear from others who's got same/similar mill G.Vernier FV3, FV3S, FV300 etc. I don't have a draw bar on the head, can somebody share any pictures, sketches links of theirs?

More to come...
Attached Images




Read the full thread at metalworkforums.com...