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TS's new toy
Twinsquirrel:
Well..... it is out of the van but I haven't done anything else yet as today is my wedding aniversary and mothering sunday so I've been doing my husbandly duties most of the day.
Here is a dodgy pic of the machine still in the back of the van.
And here's a pic of Rhiannon, my youngest future engineer taken today.
Hope to make more progress tomorrow
David
Divided he ad:
Yep, some of them there mothers day commitments here too!
I'm sure you will be putting it through a few tests this week coming though eh?
"future engineer" .... I think there is a need for a plastic hammer and saw in that tray :)
(At least the second pic' was good quality :thumbup: )
Ralph.
Twinsquirrel:
I've given myself the day off today due to the weather (that's my excuse anyway), so plenty of time to mess with the new toy.....
Here's the xj20 in it's temporary position in my workshop.
Now that is all apart I'm quite impressed with the general build quaility, I was expecting to find huge blow holes in all the castings and casting sand everywhere but all I can find is a small <2mm hole in the saddle casting.
The z axis had about .5" of play which the previous owner said it had from new! I didn't think that was acceptable but found that adjusting it out was easy, the screw has a thrust bearing with a locking nut adjustment at the top, a quick tweak got rid of about half the play.
The Z screw has a nut arrangement that is pivoted using 2 grubscrews to take up the backlash, similar to the cross slide on my mini lathe, I find these easy to adjust but they quickly need attention again....we'll see..
I was quite surprised to see tapered gibs on all axis I'm hoping that this is a better arrangement than the grub screw and locking nut arrangement I have on my lathe? The x and y axis screws and nuts have a kind of split nut which can be "pinched up" to remove the play, I reckon this is a better way of doing things than pivoting the whole nut as on the z axis?
When I went to view the machine I didn't notice that the table had a bit of damage, I'm telling myself it's not too bad, what do you guys think?
I still haven't recieved the replacement crown gear for the head so it is still stuck in high range, hopefully it will arrive in the post today...fingers crossed.
David
Darren:
You're getting there, I don't thing that mark on the bed will cause you any problems. Just make sure you knock off the high spot if there are any.
I used a fine diamond stone on mine as it too had a couple of dings.
You don't want to be making the bed nice and shiny, just knock off the highs spots, it only takes a quick wipe. :thumbup:
sbwhart:
--- Quote from: Twinsquirrel on March 25, 2009, 06:28:13 AM ---
When I went to view the machine I didn't notice that the table had a bit of damage, I'm telling myself it's not too bad, what do you guys think?
--- End quote ---
Hi David looks a tidy machine you're giving it a bit of TLC and will be a asset to you're shop when you've got it fixed up, as for the damage I've seen far worse on machines in industry, just make shure none of the damage is standing up to throw your work out you can smooth it off with a flat or square stone Arkansus grade probably the best, you can get them from here
http://www.hswalsh.com/items.aspx?c=478
Hope this helps
Have fun
Stew
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