Thread: Shoulda known

I would clean them before and put a light coat of oil on them, that way if you do get a bit of paint on them it will just wipe off easily.

Dave

I checked
My al340 the day I got it home. I think I must have had the only free of sand and crud lathe they sold.

Jeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzus, I wasn't lookin' for another job !

My AL336 gearbag was a little noisy from new so I sucked some oil out and tipped in a bit of 80w90 gear oil in, it shut it up and made it sound sweet, hahaha I think won't look in there yet

Originally Posted by matthew_g

I checked
My al340 the day I got it home. I think I must have had the only free of sand and crud lathe they sold.

HI Matthew,
I think I know why. Mine is the AL340D which comes with the DRO. They sold this model with a bucket of sand thrown in. I just didn't realise they were going to actually 'throw it in'
Gees, I'm on a roll here.

Phil

Originally Posted by Steamwhisperer

HI Matthew,
I think I know why. Mine is the AL340D which comes with the DRO. They sold this model with a bucket of sand thrown in. I just didn't realise they were going to actually 'throw it in'
Gees, I'm on a roll here.

Phil

LOL
Damn, where did all those crickets come from?

matthew
What!!!,
"they forgot to include the standard optional extras"

Originally Posted by Dave J

I would clean them before and put a light coat of oil on them, that way if you do get a bit of paint on them it will just wipe off easily.

Dave

Yea. what he said!

It's amazing how things rust really quickly when the're clean! I cleaned my headstock back to bare metal and the next day I went out to the shed and it was coated in rust

You definately don't want anything not even dust or a hair in the bearing seats of the spindle. The other bearing seats are not as critical even though I would avoid any paint on them too. A light coating of oil on them is the go. I know with the POR15, if you get some where you don't want it and it hardens, you need to chisel it off.

The stuff you got looks the goods!

Cheers,

Simon

Originally Posted by Ueee

LOL
Damn, where did all those crickets come from?

I actually laughed out loud then Ewan. I sure am getting some strange looks from the missus.

Phil

Originally Posted by matthew_g

I checked
My al340 the day I got it home. I think I must have had the only free of sand and crud lathe they sold.

See now thats shows how crap their quailty control is......... every now and then they make a good one

Originally Posted by shedhappens

Jeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzus, I wasn't lookin' for another job !

My AL336 gearbag was a little noisy from new so I sucked some oil out and tipped in a bit of 80w90 gear oil in, it shut it up and made it sound sweet, hahaha I think won't look in there yet

Not that I think 80w90 will give you a problem, but remember the spindle bearings are splash lubricated.

Stuart

All went smooth, heres a pic of the headstock.

Looks great Lather, I'm starting to wish I'd done mine.
I did change the oil early on, though once I saw the bottom of the bucket I wish I had done it earlier. Here is a picture of the oil that came out. I connected the drain port to a 20 litre plastic drum with a coolant pump and about 15 litres of kero in it. Then just hosed it out and this is what was left in the bottom of the drum.

Stuart

Originally Posted by lather

All went smooth, heres a pic of the headstock.

Thats's a great job. I love the colour. So easy to see any foreign material in there. A couple of magnets thrown in for good measure would top of a great job. I put one in the bottom and one on the lid, above the drain hole for the spindle bearing. Hopefully it catches any foreign material before it's flushed into the spindle bearings. Unlike most other peoples lathes, my headstock only has a drain hole for the front spindle bearing. I'm not sure if it's designed that way or if they forgot to do one for the rear. The rear bearing gets enough lubrication without it anyway.

Cheers

Simon

I wish I hadn't seen that Stuart, this sort of thing doesn't just happen with chinko machines, In 1982 I bought a new Harley, up until then I had only had pommie bikes, anyway I was giving it a flogging and when I changed from 2nd to 3rd the clutch lever pulled in with no pressure and there was a huge bang, the back wheel locked up and I skidded to a halt. On inspection the gearbox mainshaft nut had come loose and when I pulled the clutch lever in it pushed the mainshaft across and I got 2 gears at once, bang, it even busted the g/box casing. When I pulled it down the primary chain case had what looked like a 12mm deep layer of aluminium/grinding crappola in the bottom of it, the engine had similar but also had swarf, the swarf had nearly parted off the rotary crankcase breather valve.

Thanks for your horrible pic's, I'll have a sticky beak in there now