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A "new" machine for my little shop!
John Hill:
Prayers answered! :bow:
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Lionel Lathe has now been joined by Sally Shaper in the back of the garage! :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:
Sally has been married twice before, ten years with the first guy then from about 1958 until today with owner number two, I am third owner.
She is very well presented and at some time has been treated to a nice coat of paint and a handy wheeled cart. She appears to be in excellent order although a couple of screws need to be tightened and there is a small pin missing which makes the automatic cross feed a little eratic.
She is a dear wee thing in fact if anyone told you they could pick up and carry a metal shaper to their car you would not believe them unless you had met Sally.
I had a bit of a play this evening and obviously there are some tricks to getting Sally to perform to her best! I got a box of tools with here but I cant be sure which ones have been ground for a shaper or for a lathe. I tried a couple of trial facings which did not go very well and there seemed to be an extremely fine difference between digging in and bending the tool and not cutting at all.
Stilldrillin:
Great result John!
Enjoy....... :thumbup:
David.
bogstandard:
John,
Glad you have got it all sorted without having to be nasty. It will be a valuable addition to your growing shop.
It is many years since I have had to use a shaper in anger, but once you find out how and get to use it, there will be no stopping you.
The milling machine has taken over from the shaper for most jobs, but for some production jobs they really excel.
Getting the hang of setting the correct angle for the job on the clapper box should be your first priority. Get that under your belt and you will be flying. That is most probably where your first tentative steps were going wrong, if you don't get the angle right, it cannot get back correctly to start the next cut.
Darren has recently become a proud owner as well, so he might be able to point you in the right direction for starting info.
John
John Hill:
Thanks John,
I have been trying to read the Yahoo group to find advice on grinding shaper tools but boy the web format is a challenge for this old fellow, frustration galore.
It has been written in magazine and website that the Adept No2 was originally a manual machine that some owner converted to power and showed the factory which then began to produce his design slightly modified. In some ways it sure looks like it! For instance the power crossfeed mechanism is very uncertain in operation and when I put my hand on the feed handle to give it some assistance it took a bite at me! Fortunately I moved fast enough to keep my finger tips!
Apart from a missing pin in the ratched pawl which allows the direction to become un-selected the mechanism that operates the pawl tends to stick to the wheel so that instead of advancing it just jiggles back and forth. I can think of a dozen ways to stop this happening but it has to be effective in both directions. Hopefully The Artful Bodger will find a way!
The clapper box angle is set off centre and the tool clears the work at the beginning of the stroke but thanks for the reminder John I will study that aspect some more.
Meanwhile my biggest problem is the tendency for the tool to dig right in which I presume is tool shape more than anything.
Oh, the other problem is finding Whitworth spanners for all the things that need adjusting! I have some somewhere being a former Riley 2.5 RM owner.
bogstandard:
John,
--- Quote ---Oh, the other problem is finding Whitworth spanners for all the things that need adjusting!
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When it come things like that, the Bahco range of adustable spanners are great. But make sure you get an imperial one :lol:
Bogs
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