All hail the shaper gods!!

**Ueee** · 23rd April 2012, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by Toggy

Ewan,

Sounds like you had a fun day.

I would recommend that you take the plate off the gearbox and check inside for crap and moisture. Mine was very "yucky" to say the least. Included heaps of grease (maybe to quieten the straight cut gears and khaki coloured oil). Wonder if it was owned by the army!!

Ken

I actually pulled the top plate of the box this evening just to take a look. It appears to have ATF in it, and is pretty clean, but i need to drain it anyway cause there is a leak somewhere which is dropping oil on the motor. It has a breather on top which was covered by mesh which is broken, i don't know whether the breather is blocked and hence the leak.

I am going to pick up that half naked girl

tomorrow morning. I'm not sure about the unload yet, i couldn't get a crane truck under 8 ton gross so its just a plain flatbed. It depends on the height of the bed as to whether i can lift it off with the crane or i will have to call in the forklift.....

At this stage i will probably just give her a good clean, fix anything that needs it and get her cutting steel. I know the ratchet and pawl will need to be fixed, and a bearing in the "feed adjustment wheel"(another thing i don't know the name of) is very wobbly. Otherwise a good clean seems to be all she needs.

I started to pull the compound apart as well this evening, only to find one of the gib screws overly tight and with a busted head. Easyout (or should i say ####### difficult out) time....One thing that was immediately evident once the gunge was off though was the beautiful frosting on the parts that clamp onto the front of the ram.

One question, there are two bars connecting the feed wheel and the end of the knee, one to drive the ratchet and one to?

Bryan, I'll make sure i get a pic of her swinging in the breeze with her bloomers round her ears just for you.

Ewan

**Anorak Bob** · 23rd April 2012, 10:17 PM

Ewan might be calling it names but you can bet they will still be feminine if he does !

**Ueee** · 23rd April 2012, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Ewan might be calling it names but you can bet they will still be feminine if he does !

Thanks Bob, She might be a "queen" but she is definitely a girl in my eyes. Its funny, but i have no desire at all to call my newer stuff names, even my Felder which i value very highly, i just see the new machines as a means to an end. The old machines i feel have real personality and deserve names.
Would Olga be more appropriate Dave?

Ewan

**RayG** · 23rd April 2012, 10:27 PM

Hi Ewan,

You could always go with Freddie.... (as in Mercury..)

With a shaper that big, "we will rock you"... works for me..

Regards
Ray

**Ueee** · 23rd April 2012, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by RayG

Hi Ewan,

You could always go with Freddie.... (as in Mercury..)

With a shaper that big, "we will rock you"... works for me..

Regards
Ray

I kinda like that Ray, as a queen fan.....

even "out of the doorway the bullets rip"...kinda fits..that is if i point her/him/it and the doorway......I'm pretty impressed with the size of some of the shavings caught up in her, they sure would hurt coming of the machine at speed!

**Machtool** · 23rd April 2012, 10:43 PM

I never thought I’d say this. I’m on the look out for a shaper. Several dozen of you know my alleged “brother” Marko. I had a call from him this afternoon. He has a commercial client that wants a shaper. We were both at a loose to understand why.

Anyway’s. If you happen to comes across one. Could be larger than you guys are interested in, this State not essential. I know people with fork lift’s up to 63 tonne.

If you happen to stumble across one that doesn’t fit your needs, I’d be happy to know about it.

Regards Phil.

**Anorak Bob** · 23rd April 2012, 10:44 PM

The feminine names I might use when I'm cross with my machines are hardly terms of endearment but then I often use the same words to describe myself usually prefaced with useless, when disaster strikes.

**Ueee** · 23rd April 2012, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

The feminine names I might use when I'm cross with my machines are hardly terms of endearment but then I often use the same words to describe myself usually prefaced with useless, when disaster strikes.

That would be the one about Ceeing yoU Next Tuesday.....my machines get called that too....normally i just get useless idiot back.

**Toggy** · 23rd April 2012, 11:00 PM

Dave,
No 2 son is a mechanic and when he jumped ship here he left a 60 litre drum of petrol drainings here. Can't let it go stale.

Ewan,

The bottom arm basically keeps the feed ratchet standing up as the table is raised and lowered.

Ken

**jhovel** · 24th April 2012, 12:42 AM

I just had a message form Ropetangler, who thought of me because this thing has "servian" cast into the top.
It's a pretty large drilling/milling/shapring vice. A bit rough around the edges - and sadly too big and too heavy for any of my machines.....

The design lends itself to conversion to "tension screw" by line drilling and boring the fixed jaw and moving and extending the screw (presumably at the handle end) and boring out the thrust collar (at the current handle end).
The swivel base has (or did have) four mounting points, so it would then be a "real" shaper vice.
SERVIAN 340mm Milling Machine Vice Rotary Table Swivel Vice Heavy Duty 75kg | eBay
Cheers,
Joe

Dave J · 24th April 2012, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

The feminine names I might use when I'm cross with my machines are hardly terms of endearment but then I often use the same words to describe myself usually prefaced with useless, when disaster strikes.

Same here, especially if they take a bigger bite than needed out of my job. LOL

Dave

Dave J · 24th April 2012, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by Ueee

Thanks Bob, She might be a "queen" but she is definitely a girl in my eyes. Its funny, but i have no desire at all to call my newer stuff names, even my Felder which i value very highly, i just see the new machines as a means to an end. The old machines i feel have real personality and deserve names.
Would Olga be more appropriate Dave?

Ewan

Queen, Olga, come on you can go better than that. Next it will be old betsy and you will have to put it out to pasture and never be able to use it. LOL

Dave

**Michael G** · 24th April 2012, 01:04 PM

You could try Priscilla, Queen that was deserted.

This shaper thing is really catching on - I mean - now even Phil wants one (he says it's for some else but...)

Michael

Dave J · 24th April 2012, 02:07 PM

Now thats a good one Michael, LOL

Your right, going back a couple of years ago only a few of us had them, now everyone wants one, LOL

With Phil it's going to be hard getting one, it seem there like burley with sharks, as soon as one comes up several are onto it in a bidding frenzy, no matter what the size.

Dave

**Ueee** · 24th April 2012, 10:59 PM

Well she is all home.....The load was easy, fork and gantry crane. The unload was another story. I didn't really want to call in a fork so.....
I drilled out the stubborn taper pin and removed the ram. I then had JUST enough reach with the crane set at 1 ton (its a 2 ton crane) to lift her a gnats whisker off the truck and drive the truck out before lowering her.
Sorry Bryan, no pics of her swinging in the breeze, but i did manage to convince her to let me take some x rated shots of her inner workings.
At least she is where she she should be now.....in my shed!

The table looks big till you put the vise on it.....

Ewan

I don't seem to be able to add pics as attachments, ie have thumbnails at the end of the post.????

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