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    Hi chuck, do you still have the drawings of the momentary switch 3 wire control from the Fuji...

    Hi chuck, do you still have the drawings of the momentary switch 3 wire control from the Fuji mini vfd? I realize the post is 8 years old so it's a shot in the dark at best!
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    Wanted: drive dog plate to fit hardinge taper lock spindle

    Hopefully the title says it all. I would also be open to entertaining the idea of a plate for a threaded spindle if it has enough meat around the center that i could bore it to the hardinge taper and make it work. Let me know what you've got [email protected]
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    So back to a question I asked on page 1 that went unanswered- is it typical to expect to indicate the compound back in after every time I move it to turn a taper? Is everybodys that "touchy"? Also any ideas for how to indicate the cross slide square to the bed/spindle without having a face...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Oh no, all of the switch gear is still being used. You can see in the picture of my vfd in the side cabinet. The front lever is used for run/reverse, stop, run/fwd and the rear lever activates the 1 sec braking mode when pulled back. I only removed the magnetic relays and transformer and things...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Thats a big weak spot with the vfd. But 1 sec is good enough for me and if I get a brake drum on there it will only be better. All things considered a vfd was the right choice for me, but obviously I've saved all of the original parts if for some reason i part with it and somebody wants to...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    That's what I thought too, but I spoke to the man who's in the know at automation direct and he said something about having to have a specific 'brake chopper' circuit along with the resistors and that's the part that isn't available. It's all a little over my head, but I tried to find out if...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Thanks! Funny how the drive belt is on the other side on that model. I can control the braking speed through the vfd but only to a certain point. The braking resistors for this model are no longer made and even when they were available cost almost as much as the vfd itself. My normal braking...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Ah, I see why you're confused. I added 2 pictures to that album, take a look Dv59 - Google Photos This model is fixed 4 speed with high and low windings in the motor. There was never a vari-drive on it. While we're on the subject if anybody knows what that brake drum is supposed to look like...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Thanks Jim, actually you'll see in my previous post that the quarter turn locking nut marked '1' was loose all along. I didn't know what it was for and never touched it. Since L vanice pointed that out its stiffer than stiff now. I wish a users manual was accessible for them so I wouldn't be...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Rons- the bearings were notchy feeling through the handwheel and very noisy when running. At low speed they whined and at high speed screeched. Zero doubt about them being bad. I'd seen some accounts of people re-greasing them but I don't know if the early new departure bearings are the same as...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    I am thankful to have your help. That's why I came here, I knew I would get experienced advice. I don't mean to come off the wrong way. I made sure to carefully clean and lightly oil the ways before I mounted the headstock, but I will take it apart again and double check per your advice and...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Derek smalls - there is an independent section of ways under the headstock that is bolted down, however the actual headstock straddles both that part and the bed itself, so I don't really see how that could have an effect. Richard king - I never even made a cut before I tore it down for the...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Also I intentionally bumped the top longitudinal slide with my fist just to see if it would stay or not after painstakingly indicating it in. That's when I noticed I could knock it back out with just a fairly light bump. I imagine if my whole cross-slide is out of whack this will make that fine...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    Ok thanks to you both. So let me make sure I have this right - the first step is to align the two adjustable gibs or feet or whatever you would call them on the bottom of the cross slide...the nibs ground at 45* that grip the front of the ways...so that a faceplate indicates true. Next step is...
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    Help! Dv59 won't cut straight

    I'm having a problem with my 1952 dv59. I recently acquired it and got it running, right away found it had bad spindle bearings so I pulled the spindle and replaced them with a high quality fafnir set I got locally, meanwhile removing the headstock and bed in order to clean them and do some...
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    Last try - removing spindle bearings from shaft

    Just to close the chapter on this, everything is back together and running very smoothly. My Bearing house was able to find a pair of old stock fafnir abec 7 bearings for $100, heck of a deal. Used Kluber Isoflex for the grease, heated the headstock to ~100c and the whole shebang slid right into...
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    Last try - removing spindle bearings from shaft

    Shared album - Andrew Haldeman - Google Photos They came out with very little pressure this way. The arbor plates already had a circular cutout almost exactly the right size to just clear the OD of the nose ring/faceplate so it had good even support all around. I tried the thump it out method...
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    Last try - removing spindle bearings from shaft

    Also I've heard told around here that people recommend using abec 7 replacements. The bearing guy says the number in the new departures that are on there indicates abec 5. Maybe the later dv's used abec 7 but I wonder if that level of precision was available in 1952? The bearings he recommended...
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    Last try - removing spindle bearings from shaft

    Jim - I'm afraid of breaking the clamp ring if I used it as a stop to press against. I don't know how tight of a fit those inner races have on the shaft though, if it doesn't take much to budge it may work. I think I'm going to try Richard's advice of thumping them loose first. If that works...
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    Last try - removing spindle bearings from shaft

    Shared album - Andrew Haldeman - Google Photos

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