JBoogie
Cast Iron
- Joined
- May 23, 2011
- Location
- Toledo, oHIo
Hello All,
We bought this machine over winter and finally got it moved in last week. I am super stoked to make some chips with this old girl. While it isn't in primo condition I'd say its in very good shape considering its age. The column has flaking all over it but the bed and saddle show some miles. However I will be doing mostly steam and gas engine work on it, so no need for aerospace tightness. With all of the tooling that it came with it would have been hard to pass it up. You can see the 2 pallets of MT5 tooling in the pics. Also came with the outboard support or backrest as Lucas calls it in the book. AND it has a DRO which will be extremely useful!
One neat thing about this machine is the amount of spindle speeds it has. Back gear in, back gear out and high speed, 13 1/2 rpm on the low end and 1500 on the top end. Something this machine has that our old one didn't is 3 ranges to the feed box. On our old Lucas if you were running in back gear the feeds would be courser than if the back gear was out. With this machine you can feed .002/rev in any spindle speed range which I think is a great feature.
The machine was inspected under power but there are always gremlins that show up when you get something like this home. For example the quill wouldn't feed smooth by hand. After some disassembly we found the pinion which feeds the rack on the quill is burred up pretty severely, so I ordered a cutter and will be making a new one. I'm guessing at some point someone was stuffing a large (dull) drill too hard and it raised the edge of some of the teeth.
The PO told us that the power feed/rapid traverse would slip. I found the cover for adjusting the clutch but don't have instructions on how to do that, anyone have any insight?
The spindle socket is in great shape. However the PO was just using a piece of scrap for a tooling keeper. I'd like to have something a little more refined than just bashing a piece of junk in and out of the spindle. A long time ago I stumbled onto the dimensions for the factory Lucas keeper but they have since updated their website and I can't find the info now. I also recall seeing on here a pretty slick method used by Giddings & Lewis on their Morse taper spindles. If anyone had drawings for either or both of those and would like to share it would be appreciated.
I think that's about it for now, but I'm sure I'll need more help down the road.
We bought this machine over winter and finally got it moved in last week. I am super stoked to make some chips with this old girl. While it isn't in primo condition I'd say its in very good shape considering its age. The column has flaking all over it but the bed and saddle show some miles. However I will be doing mostly steam and gas engine work on it, so no need for aerospace tightness. With all of the tooling that it came with it would have been hard to pass it up. You can see the 2 pallets of MT5 tooling in the pics. Also came with the outboard support or backrest as Lucas calls it in the book. AND it has a DRO which will be extremely useful!
One neat thing about this machine is the amount of spindle speeds it has. Back gear in, back gear out and high speed, 13 1/2 rpm on the low end and 1500 on the top end. Something this machine has that our old one didn't is 3 ranges to the feed box. On our old Lucas if you were running in back gear the feeds would be courser than if the back gear was out. With this machine you can feed .002/rev in any spindle speed range which I think is a great feature.
The machine was inspected under power but there are always gremlins that show up when you get something like this home. For example the quill wouldn't feed smooth by hand. After some disassembly we found the pinion which feeds the rack on the quill is burred up pretty severely, so I ordered a cutter and will be making a new one. I'm guessing at some point someone was stuffing a large (dull) drill too hard and it raised the edge of some of the teeth.
The PO told us that the power feed/rapid traverse would slip. I found the cover for adjusting the clutch but don't have instructions on how to do that, anyone have any insight?
The spindle socket is in great shape. However the PO was just using a piece of scrap for a tooling keeper. I'd like to have something a little more refined than just bashing a piece of junk in and out of the spindle. A long time ago I stumbled onto the dimensions for the factory Lucas keeper but they have since updated their website and I can't find the info now. I also recall seeing on here a pretty slick method used by Giddings & Lewis on their Morse taper spindles. If anyone had drawings for either or both of those and would like to share it would be appreciated.
I think that's about it for now, but I'm sure I'll need more help down the road.