Thread: Dean Smith & Grace 1307

Looking at the picture again you are right Stuart, I thought it had longer side at the front but it's only a lead screw cover etc.
Mystery lol

This week I picked up a very nice DSG 1307 from Thales (ADI) in bendigo.

I am suffering a great deal of lathe envy at the moment. Great lathe and fantastic buy.

Good buying. Probably find you won't have enough tool holders - not too many, looks like the larger machine kept with tradition and Dickson! I'd make sure they're secured, or pick up as soon as possible, Styles "lost" a couple of items for us that would have required a forklift to move on a supposedly secure site, replacement value of 15k, of course, somehow, it wasn't their fault .

Dro is gone, if the brochure indicates standard fitment? The guarding looks interesting, wonder how many times that was used, hmmm. Tailstock compared to another DSG that went to the great shed in the sky a while back, seems on the smaller size, if my memory isn't totally cactus!

Originally Posted by Hunch

Good buying. Probably find you won't have enough tool holders - not too many

Hunch,

I agree. I have 10 for the Chipmaster and still need to change things out occasionally

Originally Posted by Hunch

I'd make sure they're secured, or pick up as soon as possible!

I picked up all the loose items as soon as the funds transfer went through. Lathe is now safely on the ground at my temporary workshop. Not going to have a chance to move it into position and power it up for a couple of weeks !!!

Cheers

Piers

Made it out to the workshop one night for a couple of hours to start cleaning up the DSG. The entire lathe is coated in a layer of dried coolant/grime, so I decided to do a complete strip down of the compound and cross slides.

One of the 4 compound slide nuts was tight, when I pulled it out the thread had galled up so I will need to make a new T bolt.


I then went too disassemble the compound slide but the one allen key missing from my Imperial set was the one I needed so I moved on to the cross side.


Once the cross slide was off the lathe I gave it quick wipe over with kero and a green Scotch-brite to remove the heavy grime. I then experimented by fitting a large green Scotch-brite to my 1/3 sheet finishing sander. This worked a treat and made the clean up very easy. I am very hapy with the results.


Ran out of time at the end of the night,The cross slide is showing some minor signs of wear, so I will mic it up to see how much it is worn.

Cheers

Piers
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Nice work Piers, can't wait to see the rest of it come up looking like that!...

I use the scotchbrite pads with kero the same way... you can get them to fit a 4" angle grinder as well, but you need to run them at reduced speed so as to not remove any metal.
http://www.toolking.com.au/polishing...pack-9-pieces/

Ray

If the cross slide is worn, we will be expecting a rescrape back to perfection...

Originally Posted by .RC.

If the cross slide is worn, we will be expecting a rescrape back to perfection...

Hi RC,

I am hoping that the wear is minimal and it won't need a scrape at this stage as the cross slide is too big to fit on my little surface plate.

hope to make it out to the workshop today

Cheers

Piers

Originally Posted by Piers037

as the cross slide is too big to fit on my little surface plate.

For the super cheap price of $880 plus postage I can easily fix that problem you have...

All though I personally think GuzziJohn needs a bigger plate and I will deliver it to him for free...

I gave it quick wipe over with kero and a green Scotch-brite to remove the heavy grime. I then experimented by fitting a large green Scotch-brite to my 1/3 sheet finishing sander.

G'day Piers

I have been going down the same path with my Colchester and like your idea of the finishing sander.
Where do you get your large Scotch-brights from?

Does anyone know of a good source of 8" Scotch-bright disks for a buffing machine? I like what Brad (BasementShopGuy) does on YouTube.

Good luck with the restoration and please keep the pictures coming.

Originally Posted by Belair_boy

Does anyone know of a good source of 8" Scotch-bright disks for a buffing machine? I like what Brad (BasementShopGuy) does on YouTube.

I get them from the same place I get the angle grinder pads http://www.toolking.com.au/products/...HEEL-8%22.html

Great for deburring as well.

Ray

Originally Posted by .RC.

For the super cheap price of $880 plus postage I can easily fix that problem

Postage might be a killer

I have a mate who is looking to bring a container load of granite from China for a building project. If this goes ahead I will get a surface plate in the container as well .

Cheers

Piers

Originally Posted by Belair_boy

Where do you get your large Scotch-brights from?
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Any Industrial supplies shop should be able to help you out.

Cheers

Piers

My wife was away for the weekend so I was flying solo with the kids. This meant limited shed time , but it did mean that I could convert the kitchen table into a compound slide cleaning station and work at night....Just about got the smell of kero out of the house...


Once I had everything cleaned and scotch brighter I miced it all up. See photos for measurements.


In summary:
Compound slide wear is much greater on the bottom half. I am guessing that the base is cast iron and the top is steel? Wear in the top is 0.01mm front to back. The bottom half has a lot more wear with 0.08mm front to back.


The cross slide has a similar amount of total wear front to back but the wear is not even across the total length. Total wear front to back is 0.08mm. Interestingly the wear is fairly even for 3/4 of the slide length at the tool post end and then much less wear at the far end as you would expect. At the far end from the tool post there are still some faint signs of scrapping.


For all the experienced guys out there, what do you make of the wear?


Will it impact the performance of the lathe that much?


My plan at this stage is to clean everything up and put it back together and start making chips with it and see how she goes....


While I was in a cleaning frenzy I also gave my NEWS brand, Kurt style vice (which I picked up at the same auction) a good going over. Very happy for $80 + RIP


Cheers


Piers