Brandenberger
Hot Rolled
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- Sep 19, 2017
Hi,
I'm working on my VN22LU, attempting to remove the lower saddle. As the nut and power feed spline shaft housing is screwed into the lower saddle with unreachable screws, I assume the only way to remove the lower saddle is first to remove the two shafts.
Opening the knee:
Removing the next level of plate holding the various bearings
and shafts:
Note for anyone else doing this, there is a ball bearing and spring
detent for the saddle feed stops in the top left corner, assume the
bearing will go flying:
Now, I am attempting to remove the shaft which has the acme thread
to the saddle nut, which is the top shaft second from the right. However
there is a shifting fork, to remove that the rear saddle feed needs
to be removed and the internal cross-shaft needs to be pulled out:
So now I can unscrew the acme thread shaft, up to the point one of the
gears is blocked by the remaining internal plate.
I'd prefer to not have to extract those several shafts, etc. If anyone
has done this before and has some pointers that would be great!
-Phil
I'm working on my VN22LU, attempting to remove the lower saddle. As the nut and power feed spline shaft housing is screwed into the lower saddle with unreachable screws, I assume the only way to remove the lower saddle is first to remove the two shafts.
Opening the knee:
Removing the next level of plate holding the various bearings
and shafts:
Note for anyone else doing this, there is a ball bearing and spring
detent for the saddle feed stops in the top left corner, assume the
bearing will go flying:
Now, I am attempting to remove the shaft which has the acme thread
to the saddle nut, which is the top shaft second from the right. However
there is a shifting fork, to remove that the rear saddle feed needs
to be removed and the internal cross-shaft needs to be pulled out:
So now I can unscrew the acme thread shaft, up to the point one of the
gears is blocked by the remaining internal plate.
I'd prefer to not have to extract those several shafts, etc. If anyone
has done this before and has some pointers that would be great!
-Phil