rblalexander
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2015
Recently a big injection moulder near me went out of business (Death of our automotive industry). Before they liquidated (most of the big machines and toolroom equipment went to branches overseas) I got the chance to buy this and some other misc stuff before the auctions started.
I had to wait 6 weeks while the site was cleared out (no fork access) but yesterday it arrived. Serial number is 48685 but i cant find any other date on the machine. It was originally bought by Lucas and they went out of business here in 1987 (year i was born)
It has at least one bad issue, X axis power feed binds terribly and once i took the apron side gear box apart and fiddled with the input shaft it feels to me like the bevel gears i think take power from the base have some missing teeth.
I have some questions:
- How does the horizontal support arm get secured? I cant seem to free it up to slide forward. I see one small gib adjustment screw on the RHS but nothing else. Im missing the drop bracket but the thread here by rklopp gave a good solution.
- How do you lock the horizontal or vertical spindles to loosen the drawbars? The horizontal has been in for years and just wont budge.
- Should the small collar on the RHS of the vertical head be fine feed? the quill handle works fine but turning the fine feed control does nothing at all, in photos i have seen a handle on that control but not on this head.
- Where is the filler plug for the main gearbox, thanks to a thread here i know it has 25!! litres of oil in it (although none shows on the sight glass)
- I see there is a tapered pin to align the rotation of the vertical head, but there isnt one to ensure the actual mounting of the vertical head onto the Y ram, is this normal? Seems like an oversight.
- There is a bijur pump down near the coolant tank, seems to have some control wiring and maybe a solenoid, is this completely automatic or do you have to actuate it from the control panel?
Thanks for your help in advance.
I had to wait 6 weeks while the site was cleared out (no fork access) but yesterday it arrived. Serial number is 48685 but i cant find any other date on the machine. It was originally bought by Lucas and they went out of business here in 1987 (year i was born)
It has at least one bad issue, X axis power feed binds terribly and once i took the apron side gear box apart and fiddled with the input shaft it feels to me like the bevel gears i think take power from the base have some missing teeth.
I have some questions:
- How does the horizontal support arm get secured? I cant seem to free it up to slide forward. I see one small gib adjustment screw on the RHS but nothing else. Im missing the drop bracket but the thread here by rklopp gave a good solution.
- How do you lock the horizontal or vertical spindles to loosen the drawbars? The horizontal has been in for years and just wont budge.
- Should the small collar on the RHS of the vertical head be fine feed? the quill handle works fine but turning the fine feed control does nothing at all, in photos i have seen a handle on that control but not on this head.
- Where is the filler plug for the main gearbox, thanks to a thread here i know it has 25!! litres of oil in it (although none shows on the sight glass)
- I see there is a tapered pin to align the rotation of the vertical head, but there isnt one to ensure the actual mounting of the vertical head onto the Y ram, is this normal? Seems like an oversight.
- There is a bijur pump down near the coolant tank, seems to have some control wiring and maybe a solenoid, is this completely automatic or do you have to actuate it from the control panel?
Thanks for your help in advance.