I now have a 1942 10ee, it's in need of some attention but i've ran worse when i made chips every day. At the moment the plan is to make it run. I've considered the freq drives, rpc and looked at the stickey about changing the motor to run on 220 single phase. I have a different idea, i'd like to alter the mg set, remove the 440 side, move the endbell down to make the genny it's own unit and then couple a 220 single phase to the genny.
Has this been attempted? Any thoughts would be appreciated but it seems it might be an option or am i nuts.
Also, any descent solvents to ease disolving the 60+ years of grungy build up. I'm switching between mineral spirits and water, guessing the build up is a combination of old coolants, some water base and some oil base.
As for what i know about it so far, X backlash is about .030, the carriage oil pump works but doesn't feed the rear flat way. Small damage to the taper attachment adjusting gear but probably not enought to warrant a new gear and rack.
Myself, i started out on in a shop that had hlv's and chuckers, changed shops and was placed on an Axleson, my first engine lathe, little did i realize how nice of a machine it was. From the discriptions i've read i guessing the 10ee will be a combination of the hlv and the axleson, really hoping i'm right but everything points that way. I did almost 20 years in shops running everything from the small hlv to a floor bar, jig bore's and devlieg's. some day's i really miss it.
Thanks to all who've shared thier info in other posts, this site is great resource.
And i'm fairly certain i'll have more questions. Thanks all, back to scrubing.
Has this been attempted? Any thoughts would be appreciated but it seems it might be an option or am i nuts.
Also, any descent solvents to ease disolving the 60+ years of grungy build up. I'm switching between mineral spirits and water, guessing the build up is a combination of old coolants, some water base and some oil base.
As for what i know about it so far, X backlash is about .030, the carriage oil pump works but doesn't feed the rear flat way. Small damage to the taper attachment adjusting gear but probably not enought to warrant a new gear and rack.
Myself, i started out on in a shop that had hlv's and chuckers, changed shops and was placed on an Axleson, my first engine lathe, little did i realize how nice of a machine it was. From the discriptions i've read i guessing the 10ee will be a combination of the hlv and the axleson, really hoping i'm right but everything points that way. I did almost 20 years in shops running everything from the small hlv to a floor bar, jig bore's and devlieg's. some day's i really miss it.
Thanks to all who've shared thier info in other posts, this site is great resource.
And i'm fairly certain i'll have more questions. Thanks all, back to scrubing.