gearco
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2010
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
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Looks amazing, I’d love to see more pics. Is this the model with the PIV drive?
I've had this drill for a few years but got stuck on the wiring; finally figured it out and now it's in operation. View attachment 310569View attachment 310571
I had an Alzmetall once. It ran smooth and quiet. Mine was 2MT spindle and min speed 250 rpm, though. That pinched enough so that eventually I sold it.
I had an Alzmetall, AB3ESV something. Pretty similar to the one Milacron sold at his auction last year. IIRC his sold for $10K ish. Mine was thrown away by b-in-law, when I was out of the country. Only drill press I have now is an Oerlikon UB2 radial .
I've had this drill for a few years but got stuck on the wiring; finally figured it out and now it's in operation. View attachment 310569View attachment 310571
That wasn't even the nicest thing of mine he threw away. He threw away my nicely restored Hardinge BB2V , seen in my avatar and on Lathes.co.uk site. I didn't restore it, I bought it from a P.M. member who had it professionally restored.
But the nicest thing he threw away was my short bed Monarch series 71, the final version of the Monarch 1000ee with its famous constant surface speed, and mine had modern electronic unlike the thyratrons of the 1000ee. Never seen another 71 short bed in all the years of looking at auctions. Mine was in very good condition too, and had a steady rest and taper turning attachment, along with a ton of tooling / workholding. The electrical cabinet was compact unlike the huge one seen on 1000ee. Either Monarch sold it with the compact electrical cabinet and modern electricals or G.M. / Delphi had it specced like that.
He also threw away lots of chucks (Bison, Sojgren, Buck, tons of Hardinge collets, faceplates), my Swiss made Optima grinder with several chucks, tons of collets , grinding wheels and tooling, my Zeiss scanmax portable CMM.
Had no idea there was an issue with the home. Was never told in advance. My sis was the one handling the home rental issue, as I was in Ceylon with mom trying to get sis's house repaired. In the beginning he told me he was sending everything to storage, and said the same when I arrived back here.
Like I said I was shell shocked when he told me about 2 ish months ago that he thrown it all away. Until that point I thought it was in storage, which is what he told me a few times.
Anyways I never planned on suing or anything, cause causing a rift in the family would destroy mom .I am just mad , sad and dejected. And only talk about this when someone talks about a similar machine.
We sure as f**k HOPE SO!
WTH is WRONG with your head that some other Pilgrim's right DECENT rebuild project is meant to detour to YOUR personal tragedy?
"Edit" exists.
"delete" exists.
UNDO your damage.
It is that SIMPLE.
Not familiar with PIV; what means?
The resto for this machine is about the same as for any other cast iron unit. You strip all paint off, which is a PITA; i usually use an air operated needle scaler with a wire brush on a grinder to get into tight areas. You then have the arduous process of filling in all of the imperfections in the cast iron. You can use body filler and for small pinholes auto putty. It's a dirty long process and to do it right you have to to back to bare metal. I like high build epoxy primer directly on the metal; usually takes a few coats with sanding in between to get smooth. I use automotive paint, usually in an RAL color if its a Euro machine.View attachment 310991 Attached is a 1958 Abene VH3 mill i restored about 6 years ago; it's a Swedish mill i bought from Milicron.View attachment 310992
That Abene also looks gorgeous.
Re. paint.
Do you seal the basecoat with a 2K clearcoat ?
What's the difference between 2k automotive paint and paint used for machine tools ?
I presume you applied with an HVLP gun ?
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