jcbinc
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2007
- Location
- portland, Or
I bought a used dead Sag 210 several years ago from Halliday machinery in Seattle. They were the Graziano dealers and they spent 4000 dollars and could not fix the controls. They were not completly honest as the machine was a nc and they threw the brain box away. I got the prints and rewired the machine back to a convential engine lathe in about 2 months.
I ended up buying 4 new electric clutches and some new gears and shafts for the gear box from Italy. After all of this and I got the gear box going I ended up putting a CNC 15 HP spindle motor and drives in the machine.
It is a wonderful lathe and I wonder if anyone could use the gear box and clutches. The clutches cost 2500 each from DMG but I found the OEM in Italy and they new manufactured them for me in about 4 months. I fixed the gear box for about 2500 dollars and it works fine. I use the machine for reaming deep holes so I put flux vector drives on both the main and the rapid traverse motor. I use the rapid traverse motor to ream small holes.
If anyone else has one of these lathes I would be interested to hear from them. We have seven lathes here and the Graziano is a nicer machine than the English Harrisons and Colchesters we have. This Graziano must have been really expensive when it was new. It still is very accurate.
JCBINC.
I ended up buying 4 new electric clutches and some new gears and shafts for the gear box from Italy. After all of this and I got the gear box going I ended up putting a CNC 15 HP spindle motor and drives in the machine.
It is a wonderful lathe and I wonder if anyone could use the gear box and clutches. The clutches cost 2500 each from DMG but I found the OEM in Italy and they new manufactured them for me in about 4 months. I fixed the gear box for about 2500 dollars and it works fine. I use the machine for reaming deep holes so I put flux vector drives on both the main and the rapid traverse motor. I use the rapid traverse motor to ream small holes.
If anyone else has one of these lathes I would be interested to hear from them. We have seven lathes here and the Graziano is a nicer machine than the English Harrisons and Colchesters we have. This Graziano must have been really expensive when it was new. It still is very accurate.
JCBINC.