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Harrison L5 rescue
trevoratxtal:
I have been following you post since you started, I have nothing but praise for what you are doing and the documentation of you progress.
:lol:
I have a Harrison L5A, I call it Beauty as it is all I ever want in a lathe.
My wife refers to her as my mistress in the garage.
I fell in love with a L5 in in 1960 and had to wait 45 years before I could own one.
I am now a happy man with two ladies, one does everything I ask and the other very little apart from cook and she must be the worlds best. :beer:.
Light hearted but not quite :offtopic:
Trev
micktoon:
Hi trev, thanks for the positive comments about the posts and L5 project :thumbup: I hope your wife does not see your post or you might be doing your own cooking for a day or two ha ha.
I am wondering would you have waited 45 years for your wife Trev or would I go to all this trouble to strip my wife down and rebuild her :lol: ........... Ummm, probably questions better to be left unanswered :D
I have not had a chance to do anymore but plan to get stuck in next week so watch this space
Cheers Mick
trevoratxtal:
Love your reply Mick :D :D :D
And I will follow your progress
Trev
micktoon:
Not been able to get too much done but a little progress. I am trying to get the main cabinet, castings , splash guard etc all cleaned off and do various mods to them before painting. I have drilled and tapped the casing for a bracket for the work lamp and inverter housing, the four bolts in the photo are the new mounting points
Who says todays young -uns are not keen these days :lol: , my three neices were here today , I made a rope swing from a tree in the garden with them and plenty on TV but the only thing they wanted to do was muck in and help with the lathe :thumbup: so many hands make light work ! Grace 9 , Lily 6 ( & a half ) and Sadie 4 all getting stuck in scraping the old paint from the splash guard, they put a couple of hours in and still were not bored :clap: They are off to Butlins holiday camp for a week but said they will sand down / prepare for paint once they are back and maybe get the gearbox sorted if they have time :ddb: Anyway well done for helping girls :clap: :clap: :clap:
The splash guard was stripped totally of paint as it looks like old synthetic stuff that might wrinkle if painted over. Before photo.
After photo, I am going to weld a few holes up and maybe weld studs to the bottom edge and drill the drip tray so once its bolted up it will be more solid and not rattle.
The general thing is starting to look more prepared now, the end gear casing cover hinges have been welded before and it wont line up right so I am going to re do the repair and get it squared up, I also intend to make the headstock end into a cabinet with shelves and door.
Cheers Mick
micktoon:
I have managed to get some more 'bodywork' done today. Welded up various surplus holes in the splash guard then cut off the hook type hangers that supported the splash guard to the rear of the drip tray, this used rattle and drive me mad :loco:. So I have drilled through the drip tray and splash guard and welded studs to the splash guard so it will sit tight to the drip tray and not rattle, the studs rather than bolts are so its smooth along the bottom for cleaning out swarf without catching bolt heads.
The original hook fixings.
A tip to weld studs like this is make the hole a bit bigger than the stud ( just bolt with head cut off to length you want ) put a copper washer over it and nut to the right place so when held in place the stud sticks through the hole to the same height as the panel its passing through, the nut and washer keep it square and the copper washer keeps any weld buldging through the back so its tidy around the stud so it will sit square when bolted onto the panel. This photo the bolt still has the head on it , once cut to length the cut end is the one fed through the panel so you keep the nice end for the nut to go on.
The stud with copper washer.
Held in place ready for tack weld, tack it then pool the weld around the stud ( without still holding it ):thumbup:
The stud welded, just leaves small bit to grind flush.
The guard in place with welds ground off.
The row of bolts now keeping the guard nice and rattle free and much more solid too.
Only other progress was to make the hole in the cabinet that was already there for switch panel, larger to convert that end into a cupboard for tooling. I will be able to have two shelves with eight inches space above each so worth doing. The shelves will be metal plate welded like the other side of the cabinet.
The hole that was standard.
The new improved hole, the semi circle in the top corner has been patched but took the photo before it was done. I will have to make templates for the shelves out of ply wood as there are rounded corners and a vee shape cuts into the rear of them too, I will make one plywood then use that to draw around to cut the metal plate.
Cheers Mick
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