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OK I will get this done over the next week.

Regards

Ian

Hi John

If you like I could print a photo in half-tone, put some dimensions on that, photograph it and post that?

Regards

Ian

Alan and John

Good luck with your machines. I have a very early number 1, despite the numbering the later model... There is a discussion of the workhead that I think fits your machines and...

For those who don't have a TIG welder. My Robland Combination machine is fitted with something similar. The fence fits on the RH side in this picture. The original plastic guard was broken when I got...

Bob
When I assembled mine I unthinkingly put a squirt of oil into the slde, it ran straight into the bottom of the V and out the end, which is wide open...

Mine is presently clean and dry. I...

I have now installed the Bunnings tool box as a switchboard to hold the VFD on my lathe. Its so thin that as a tool box it makes a good switchboard!

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I have put in top and bottom vents....

Thanks Michael, I have to go to the airport on Monday and I will try that crowd.

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Ian

Thanks very much Bob and SB, I will chase some up. Its much easier when you know what it is called!

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Ian

I am doing a cleanup and refurb on my Lantain Lathe, now 37 years old! One of the things that I would like to do is replace the felt wipers on the carriage. Does anyone know what sort of felt should...

I have seen videos of these things working and they look very dangerous! If you go this way be very careful. I wouldn't do it.

Ian

Hi Kryn

I don't remember who I got it from now, it came off ebay, more or less one of these
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This may be a red herring but might that have started life as a thin-section grinder and or saw for use in a geological laboratory? Formally called a petrographic grinder I think.
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Beyond Tools in Perth are the Australian agents and I have bought things for my Robland 260 Combination machine from them. I would try them first.

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Ian

Hi
I am an Almond grower and use one of the cheap eBay pole saws to prune as they are much lighter than the telescopic type saws made by Stihl et al. After 4k trees over 4years what I originally...

Yes Bob, that is the one.

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Ian

Dean - I am not going to switch the tacho. Its going in a prominent position and I want it to act as an indicator that the machine is powered up.

Bob - I am heading towards something similar but I...

Yes Dean, it's one of the cheap ones off eBay. Mine is rated to run anywhere between 8 - 24v. It worked well when I had a play with it on the bench. I think that the idea of powering it off the line...

Thanks CBA, that is the sort of thing that I needed to know and I will take your advice. It is just for an RPM meter, I was just trying to avoid the proliferation of stuff...

I can feel a fully...

Thanks for the quick responses gents!

Bob - I don't know, google hasn't been my friend. I can find that just the the display is rated at 23 mA. I will have a go at measuring it.

CBA - I suspect...

Hi All

I have been gathering things to convert my lathe to VFD variable speed and yesterday got the whole thing working on the bench. One of the things that I have acquired is a 'Hall Effect'...

Bob - this is what I have turned your drawing into, the dimensions changed a little as I had to fabricate it but the heights and the angles are as close to the drawing as I can get it.


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Thanks for your kind offer Michael! I will send you a PM.

Yes, I thought a mandrell would be the way to go. I have to pull the shaft once more to replace the belts and was wondering about using...

Another wonderful drawing thanks Bob! Interesting that it is made of mild steel, looks like I am on the lookout for a piece of 1" plate or perhaps a hunk of 4" bar might be easier. I wonder if (as it...

Bob, Thanks so much, that isn't a sketch its a work of art! It is very generous of you to take the time to do such a careful job. I had better do a decent job of making it up to do justice to the...

Bob

It probably wouldn't have the reach to tighten that far as it stands but I could always put it back in the lathe and bore it a little deeper at need.

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Ian

My version of the pin spanner. This is made from my scrap bin, the head is a piece of black MS which is welded to a piece of ground shaft. The two studs are made from 6mm HT bolts. I struggled to get...

Thanks Bob! I have the workhead pulley, it's the internal grinding drive pulley that I am missing. I am eyeing off a couple of sources of material to make it and presently a cast iron trolley wheel...

I made a start on making up the missing parts.

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From L-R the pin to hold the guards for the grinding wheel, the thumbscrew for the Y axis dial, a retaining bracket for the LH end of the...

Bob

That looks like a useful thing, but does it chime?

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Ian

Hi All

I am planning to move my lathe and would like to a better job of installing it so I have been on the lookout for a precision level. Today I picked this up, its an engineers clinometer.
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Thanks Bob and Peter, They are most impressive and would clearly do a great job of grinding HSS lathe and shaper bits. The 'to do list' is growing exponentially.

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Ian

Hi John
Might be worth ringing the Mt Compass Sawmill if there are no offers.
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Ian

The Cyclone plans on Bill Pentz' site are not that difficult to make up. I cut mine out, then took it to a sheet metal worker for rolling and spot welding and then did the final assembly myself. I...

Looks like a great shed in a wonderful spot!

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Ian

Thanks Bob, that sounds much more achievable. I will put that one on the (presently rather long) list!

Thanks Simon, it has been a fun project. I was very lucky to score the machine and to find...

Hi Peter

Great to hear from the Netherlands! Thanks for the the suggestion, I will keep it in mind but I think that it will be some time before I get to make this up. Doing this machine has rather...

Hi Bob

It sounds like a case of one step forward and one back with the workheads. Does yours take a drive pulley? I like the adaptors to take square lathe tooling, something that I am going to...

Hi Brad

As it stands it is around 1120mm long and 150mm high. It was bit long when I got it and had a machining flaw at one end so I cut around 100mm off and solved both issues. It cost me around...

Hi

I have a Robland combination machine to which I added a new planer fence assembly from a Chinese machine. More information and some pics in post 7 of
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That is really interesting Bob, all the accessories with mine have the bed number (719) stamped on them so they belong together. It looks like mine is an early one, perhaps transitional?

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Thanks very much PDW! I would be pleased to buy a lifetime or twos supply when you are back. Please PM when convenient.

Cheers.

Ian

Thanks Bob, some photos and dimensions would be really helpful, no urgency.

I will get dissecting.

As it happens I don't have a 9" Hercus Lathe but it does match the spindle on my dividing...

Hi Ben

I am not really familiar with the Hercus Mill, I have a Centec2A which I think is a similar size, ie limited Y. It came with a chuck of the sort that you are considering. I found that it...

Well Telstra have finally reconnected us to the world so I thought that I would do an update with where I have got to with this. The machine is fully back together and I have cleaned up and...

Thanks Kryn.

Bob, Both lots have had the phosphoric acid but for some reason the collets have gone black, a very different steel I imagine? It may come off when I clean them up in the morning.
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Hi Bob

Mine has a 'T' handle to lock the table feed hand wheel but no brass tip, unfortunately. However even with the shaft locked there is still a whisker of movement in the table, I will measure...

Bob - A couple of stops visible here

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/macedon/miscellaneous-goods/tool-and-cutter-grinder/1066542788

Looks like they have used them to lock the X.

Regards

Ian

Cheers Bob, I have found the shoebox machining club a very comfortable place to be! It has been easier to send the very occasional big job out than than to have a lot of underutilized, heavy and...

Hi Bob

I had a go at those stops today and an interesting exercise it has been. Firstly they don't belong to the machine, they are made to fit a 0.34+ slot (probably actually 3/8) and the slot on...

Hi Simon - The DTI is a good idea, I will give it a try.

Bob. The earlier post about stops is very interesting. I think that they are painted black so not Hercus. I will clean them up and do some...