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PROTOTRAK Mill rebuild class in Feb or March, 2021 - Fayetteville TN

Richard King

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Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Hello all I had a good size shop owner call me today and he has a Prototrak VMC apart and wants to replace the X and Y Turcite. I said I could possibly do it in February or March. He said he has a lot of space, big surface plates, and if I wanted to do a regular class there too at the same time, he could handle it. I have another class host who now lives in the area who has volunteered to assist me. I was holding back on the Feb dates as I have always down a class in TX in Feb, but it sounds like it's a wash this year. Or we may change to Austin in March. I should know in a few days on the date in TN and let all know. The host said he would welcome the help with rebuilding the machine plus those who want to come and observe plus take a regular class Rich
 

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Well if it ends up happening in March I’d love to come but I’m pretty busy February into early March.
 
What's happening with yours?

I’m still working on my machine just have not had a minute of time. Been pulling 20 hour days and I’m exhausted. That’s why I wanted to get the machine done before this. But it took me longer than anticipated for well everything.

I also ended up selling a few of my other machines and that took a lot of my free time aswell so the shop is more spacious but now it’s about to be time to shoehorn a integrex or something even bigger in there.
 
That's usually lambing time for me, but I would still love to try and attend. I actually might be ok as I put my rams in around the middle of October. Earliest my ewes should lamb is mid March if they happened to ovulate right when the rams were put in. [emoji106]

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We set a date - Feb 10 to 14, 2021. Fayetteville is about 1 1/2 hour south of Nashville. I just put a ad on Ebay selling the class. The shop owner said he has several surface plates, several work benches so we can separate the student at 6' and we will have everyone wear a mask during the class. Here are some pictures of the temp controlled shop. The owner told me it averages 60 degree's in February. Better then -20 below as it maybe in MN. First 2 pic's are of the shop and the last 3 are from the LA class we just completed. Send me an email if you would like to attend. [email protected]
 

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I spoke to Stanley the host yesterday and he wants to do the class. I am going despite we only have 4 students signed up so far. So if you can make it, it will be a really good learning class as we are going to re-Turcite (Rulon 142)his machine during the class. Rookies will be learning to hand and power scrape and see actual rebuilding.

I just finished the Florida class and got home Monday. It was a great class, check out the forum where I talk about it. Jan 13 - 17 FLORIDA Rebuilding class has an opening

Rich
 
Tomorrow Feb 10 is day one of the class. We have room for anyone who can make it. It should be a fun class as Stanley the shop owner...SJS Machine is going to rebuild his X & Y on his mill. New turcite. Bob Gosin is bringing his Bridgeport table and saddle and Tim is bringing his Gallmeyer & Livingston surface grinder table. All to be scraped.
 
That class is finished....With Covid scare we lost 2 students, but we had 4 students and we were able to re- Rulon new wear strip material on the machine. The machine was a Prodotrak made by King Rich in Taiwan...
 

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A few more pictures.
 

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Looks like our next class will be in Flint MI in May. I am hoping to have Daryl Smith(member Other Brother) stop by and say hi. I will start a new thread when we get the exact date in a few days. Or a small 4 man class in MN in April. Rich
 
In post #10, picture 1, what am I seeing on the right side back? It looks like a rod for the King-Way standing by itself with an electronic readout at the top. It was also in the side view in the other thread but I still can't tell what's being measured and how it's done.
 
I had never seem one like that before. It's a height gage. The gage is on top and you lower the arm down to the part, if you look close on the 2nd picture you can see the upright setting on the base ways. We were measuring the 4 corners of the saddle to be sure it was co-planer to the saddle. It was less then .002". I wanted to know that before we started to match fit the saddle to the base. We has not started to scrape under there yet to the bed. We just scraped the 4 saddle Y surfaces that ride the bed with a 18" camel back to be sure they were not high in the middle. They all were about .002", The base was not ground as I would usually do on a rebuild. The reason we replaced the Turcite was because it was getting loose because the epoxy bond was failing on the 20 year old machines.
 
On the 2nd machine, pic 3, Stanley swept the top of the table in 12" sweep and I believe he said it was with-in .001". He said that machine will be his next project to replace that Turcite as it was showing wear too. I said next year if I'm still teaching. :-)
 
Thanks, that makes sense now. Just never seen a device quite like it. You'd have to have head room for it which might be a problem in some situations.

I had never seem one like that before. It's a height gage. The gage is on top and you lower the arm down to the part, if you look close on the 2nd picture you can see the upright setting on the base ways. We were measuring the 4 corners of the saddle to be sure it was co-planer to the saddle. It was less then .002". I wanted to know that before we started to match fit the saddle to the base. We has not started to scrape under there yet to the bed. We just scraped the 4 saddle Y surfaces that ride the bed with a 18" camel back to be sure they were not high in the middle. They all were about .002", The base was not ground as I would usually do on a rebuild. The reason we replaced the Turcite was because it was getting loose because the epoxy bond was failing on the 20 year old machines.
 








 
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