CountryBoy19
Stainless
- Joined
- Aug 14, 2012
- Location
- Bedford, IN
Ok, after buying/watching Richards video over a year ago, buying a few scraping supplies, and having my surface plate lapped to AA standard, I've decided that I'm never going to get enough time to actually learn to scrape well enough to scrape my compound, saddle, and cross-slide on my Leblond.
I fully realize that this isn't going to be cheap, but I am on a budget. If I can provide measurements on how square the cross-slide is to the bed-ways, is it possible to send the saddle, cross-slide, and compound off to have scraped? If so, where to send it and how much will it cost?
FWIW, they aren't terribly worn, they are galled from lack of lubrication. As a matter of fact, the compound still shows signs of what I assume to be the original scraping, but it has galling/scoring. In some places the scoring is severe enough that it will impede proper fluid film retention so I would like to get it corrected. The underside of the saddle is not galled, but does have some wear from riding on the hardened bed ways; that would probably just need scraped down to get proper PPI and center "relief" (there is only about 20% non-bearing surface remaining in the center).
Any thoughts/advice/recommendations? I would rather send them to a member but I'm open to options. Timeline isn't super critical, maybe 7 months- 1 year turn-around?
I fully realize that this isn't going to be cheap, but I am on a budget. If I can provide measurements on how square the cross-slide is to the bed-ways, is it possible to send the saddle, cross-slide, and compound off to have scraped? If so, where to send it and how much will it cost?
FWIW, they aren't terribly worn, they are galled from lack of lubrication. As a matter of fact, the compound still shows signs of what I assume to be the original scraping, but it has galling/scoring. In some places the scoring is severe enough that it will impede proper fluid film retention so I would like to get it corrected. The underside of the saddle is not galled, but does have some wear from riding on the hardened bed ways; that would probably just need scraped down to get proper PPI and center "relief" (there is only about 20% non-bearing surface remaining in the center).
Any thoughts/advice/recommendations? I would rather send them to a member but I'm open to options. Timeline isn't super critical, maybe 7 months- 1 year turn-around?