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Gallery, Projects and General => Project Logs => Topic started by: thecogwheel on July 17, 2017, 04:46:38 PM
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This week I finally managed to get the 102 making chips (somebody on this board needs to invent a time machine!). It took some work mostly in the drive area. I didn’t have access to the proper voltage to drive the existing motor so I decided to replace the original Schaublin motor with new 3/4 HP Baldor that I picked up a year ago for $50. I also wanted to keep the mechanical variable speed drive working. I could have got the old motor rewound, and I might do that some day, but the $800 that I was quoted was a bit rich.
After modelling up the existing motor in Fusion I designed up a pulley to fit the Baldor, spacers to place the new motor in the same location as the old one and a motor mounting plate. I used old school methods to make up a plate to mount the VFD and associated electrical components.
I made a montage type video of all the work:
Here is the direct link:
(https://youtu.be/LJ0YZ5XCN7c)
Did some initial cutting with it (really sketchy tooling setup!):
(https://thecogwheel.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/10280doc.gif?w=584&h=389)
Pretty excited to have a working Schaublin in the shop!
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Love the bottom vid!
I have never seen a lathe able to add metal like that from swarf. That Schaublin is simply amazing! And most useful...
:)