hydrogeo
Plastic
- Joined
- May 7, 2011
- Location
- New Hampshire
I have finally gotten around to giving some attention to my neglected Heavy 10. I have just gotten started and can already tell this is going to be one of those "bit off more than I can chew" projects. So what else is new. I'm not worried about it coming out perfect, I just want everything to work right and not have it look like, well, the rest of the junk in my garage. This is too nice a piece machinery not to give it some respect.
Anyway before starting I bought one of the Ilion manuals from EBay. Wow, what a great resource. If the author is on here I just want to say thanks, I would be sunk for sure without the manual. I also bought some paint:
Paint counter guy insisted this was really good stuff. We shall see. I decided on a royal blue.
Started my teardown with the easy stuff. To strip paint I purchased a cheapo needle scaler. This is my new favorite air tool.
Then I started on the apron. Boy, those taper pins are a joy.
Found that some decided to machine some birdseed at some point.
Everything went well until I got to the worm gear. Now I am stuck. The lion manual says there are pins holding the threaded collars on the worm gear shaft but I can't find any. I tried in vain to just unscrew the collars. The collar toward the chuck has six indents and the one toward the tail stock has five. These look like something for a spanner wrench but none of them seems to be a pin.
Anyone willing to offer some input on how to get this apart?
Anyway before starting I bought one of the Ilion manuals from EBay. Wow, what a great resource. If the author is on here I just want to say thanks, I would be sunk for sure without the manual. I also bought some paint:
Paint counter guy insisted this was really good stuff. We shall see. I decided on a royal blue.
Started my teardown with the easy stuff. To strip paint I purchased a cheapo needle scaler. This is my new favorite air tool.
Then I started on the apron. Boy, those taper pins are a joy.
Found that some decided to machine some birdseed at some point.
Everything went well until I got to the worm gear. Now I am stuck. The lion manual says there are pins holding the threaded collars on the worm gear shaft but I can't find any. I tried in vain to just unscrew the collars. The collar toward the chuck has six indents and the one toward the tail stock has five. These look like something for a spanner wrench but none of them seems to be a pin.
Anyone willing to offer some input on how to get this apart?