first off i bought the lathe on ebay, and it was 250 miles away. you hear all the horror stories about buying unseen machines, this is turning into one of them
here it is arriving on the back of a transit dropside
we had split the lathe and cabinet to make it easier to handle, very glad i did! would of been a hairy drive home in the horiontal rain with a top heavy machine in the back
cabinet + old man
and the lathe
not the best way to lift it with the stap round the leadscrew like that but was the only way, did pack it out with wood to stop any deflection though ad it still turns
then it was time to address the problems...
1. guy said the screwcutting box was stiff through lack of use, had a look before i handed the cash over. couldnt see any missing teeth so fine
2. no coolant pump, switch or contactor. fine must of been a budget model or something
3. tachometer not working
4. lots of backlash in the topslide
well someones been telling fibs
when i got the lathe back i looked a little deeper.....
can you tell what it is yet?
the key the lead screw/power feed selector gear slides along was bent like a bananna! and this key also locks the gear that transfers power to the shaft so the gear was spinning free on the shaft
theory is that someone has had the power feed going, then engaged the clasp nuts and locked the saddle = crunch! although there should be an aluminium shear key to prevent such disasters
so im left with an empty gearbox
and a couple of bits
i hammered and filed the key flat again but it had damaged itself and the shaft quite a bit, looks like the first job for the lathe is to turn itself a new shaft
back in the gearbox
can just see the now straight key and the gear that slides along it, as well as the power transfer gear thats also held by the key
another problem was the other selector mechanism was a bit siezed, so striped it
can just see the damage by the detent holes, a quick file and a polish the thing was sliding again
the old taper pin took a beating coming out so had to fit a new one, by sheer jammy luck i had bought a box of 3/16'' taper pins the month before
needs trimming....
shaft back in and the selectors all selecting
more gears
a point to note if anyones going to stirp a viceroy 280 gearbox (never know) imperial grub screws! sneaky beggers
another slidey selector
well got the gearbox sorted! thought i was going mad but turns out the dial is wrong! someones been at this lathe big style
need to go buy a deerstalker hat and a pipe me thinks here is what i mean
now for this box to work the numbers on the lever and the dial need to match, but as can be seen the dial is at 2 and the lever at 1. this is in fact gear 1, either someone has replaced it with a dial from another machine with the pin in the wrong place or its one of the dials from the top of the gearbox.
also found the aluminium shear key
very much un damaged and definatly still aluminium, it lives behind the gears atached to the gearbox shaft. spent the rest of the day rearanging everything and shfting the lathe to its final resting position
very long first post but its about 2 weeks work in one go
also everyone seems to have uploaded ther pics to the denford server, is this preferable or is it ok to just insert the pics as i have done? saves server space
