Hi all,
with some friendly advice here and a deep breath I pulled the trigger on this beauty. I am in thoroughly over my head, but am humbly determined to be a good caretaker to this beast. She is, as best as i can determine, a '56 10ee with a DC drive rebuild. She was previously owned by the machinist who's shop was above mine. when he, unfortunately, passed away recently and the auction buyer backed out so i got an opportunity to pick it up and took it. Aside from being bone dry and stripped of tooling she appears to be functional, if a little well worn. Spent yesterday oiling her up, starting to remove grease and grime, and making a tbolt for the tool post off my other lathe so i could take a first cut and see what was what. My goal with this machine is to clean and tighten it up as much as possible without any more major interventions/downtime than necessary...that said, not afraid to take on projects and learn new skills when needed, and i dont depend on it directly for income.
I am a glass worker by trade(my metal working usually centers around tool making for glass) and have only limited restoration experience. I also dont have a mill and the one i usually have access to is unavailable at present due to the lockdown. I do have another small lathe and basic home shop level metal fabrication stuff, welder, etc..
I have...a bunch of questions..I'm working my way through old posts, but feel free to point me to stuff if I'm rehashing old topics.
Thanks in advance for all the help, past present and future!
All that said, here she is after a little half assed cleaning!
with some friendly advice here and a deep breath I pulled the trigger on this beauty. I am in thoroughly over my head, but am humbly determined to be a good caretaker to this beast. She is, as best as i can determine, a '56 10ee with a DC drive rebuild. She was previously owned by the machinist who's shop was above mine. when he, unfortunately, passed away recently and the auction buyer backed out so i got an opportunity to pick it up and took it. Aside from being bone dry and stripped of tooling she appears to be functional, if a little well worn. Spent yesterday oiling her up, starting to remove grease and grime, and making a tbolt for the tool post off my other lathe so i could take a first cut and see what was what. My goal with this machine is to clean and tighten it up as much as possible without any more major interventions/downtime than necessary...that said, not afraid to take on projects and learn new skills when needed, and i dont depend on it directly for income.
I am a glass worker by trade(my metal working usually centers around tool making for glass) and have only limited restoration experience. I also dont have a mill and the one i usually have access to is unavailable at present due to the lockdown. I do have another small lathe and basic home shop level metal fabrication stuff, welder, etc..
I have...a bunch of questions..I'm working my way through old posts, but feel free to point me to stuff if I'm rehashing old topics.
Thanks in advance for all the help, past present and future!
All that said, here she is after a little half assed cleaning!