cbowen4
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 23, 2009
- Location
- Lansing, MI
I have a Clausing 5914 lathe I picked up quite a few years ago for pretty cheap that I'm trying to restore. Now, before anyone else feels a need to point it out, yes, I am stark raving mad and have been attempting to scrape the bed. The flats had a dip of about 8 thousands and the v-ways closer to 18 thousands. I started by scraping the tops of the ways flat as a reference and then I've been working on scraping the flats. I wanted to get an idea as to if this is good enough.
I do not know how many passes, it has to be hundreds, though I only recently have gotten good enough to make real progress. I think it is probably good enough to move on to the V's now. Thoughts?
It's within about 2 tenths end to end based on the top flats and level as accurately as I can measure it. It was a bear to scrape to this point. I've actually been working on it off and on for years. I started with a hand scraper. Then I had to get something to sharpen the hand scraper properly. Then I figured out a hand scraper is pretty useless on this. So I found a used Biax (with a bunch of tooling!) But, I didn't really make much progress until I finally made a diamond lap sharpener about a year ago. It is only possible to scrape those flame hardened ways with a super sharp carbide blade and count on sharpening after every single pass.
I'm also scraping the front face as a reference surface. That's not hardened, so it scrapes super easily! If you look, you can see where the flame hardening ends under the headstock.
I do not know how many passes, it has to be hundreds, though I only recently have gotten good enough to make real progress. I think it is probably good enough to move on to the V's now. Thoughts?
It's within about 2 tenths end to end based on the top flats and level as accurately as I can measure it. It was a bear to scrape to this point. I've actually been working on it off and on for years. I started with a hand scraper. Then I had to get something to sharpen the hand scraper properly. Then I figured out a hand scraper is pretty useless on this. So I found a used Biax (with a bunch of tooling!) But, I didn't really make much progress until I finally made a diamond lap sharpener about a year ago. It is only possible to scrape those flame hardened ways with a super sharp carbide blade and count on sharpening after every single pass.
I'm also scraping the front face as a reference surface. That's not hardened, so it scrapes super easily! If you look, you can see where the flame hardening ends under the headstock.