Lance-W
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2013
- Location
- Eagle,Idaho U.S.A.
Hello All,
A little about me first. I love old stuff. I'd much rather have a lathe from 1942 than a brand spanking new (insert name). I've rebuilt/restored many things from 60's era muscle cars, Visible Gas pumps, WWII Jeep, M274 Military Mule, etc...
I currently have an old belt drive Southbend and have reached it limits and it was time to step up to something larger so I started searching for a Monarch.
I finally found a 10EE that wasn't 1000+ miles away or way beyond my budget. What I ended up with was a 1942 made in May. It has the taper attachment feature and still has the motor generator set-up. anyways on to the pictures then I'll have a couple of questions.
It also has an older DRO on it. Unfortunately it's missing one pushbutton that I'll have to try and scrounge up
Then there's this part. The exciter? I thought everything was supposed to be under the bed of the lathe and not external? I've looked at an awful lot of Monarch 10EE restoration threads and I can't remember ever seeing something like this???????? It works as I saw the lathe power up before we loaded it in the trailer. (This a probably a very newbee question and you guys are gonna tell me that yup that's the way they work)
Seems it was rebuilt at some point.
The problems so far
It has a significant gear oil leak somewhere. You see on the bottom of the apron on the first picture it's very oily/dirty and there's a visibly wet mark under the spindle end of the lathe. Is there a common leak in this area that I should start with? It's way to dirty at the moment to diagnose where the leak is....
The bottom left end cover is missing a chunk. Is there anyone here that's parting out a lathe at the moment?
It needs a cross slide nut. The one that's in there has about .100 of backlash.
I'm sure that as soon as I have time and it's finally clean that there will be more
The correct color for this year is? I've only seen gray ones and the beige newer ones in real life. This one has green under the gray (gray was definitely a repaint, it's peeling off everywhere) and then some red I assume the red was primer). Is there a PPG or some other manufacturers color code that everyone feels is correct?
Thank you for your time and I look forward to sharing the steps along the way to my lathe being restored.
Lance
A little about me first. I love old stuff. I'd much rather have a lathe from 1942 than a brand spanking new (insert name). I've rebuilt/restored many things from 60's era muscle cars, Visible Gas pumps, WWII Jeep, M274 Military Mule, etc...
I currently have an old belt drive Southbend and have reached it limits and it was time to step up to something larger so I started searching for a Monarch.
I finally found a 10EE that wasn't 1000+ miles away or way beyond my budget. What I ended up with was a 1942 made in May. It has the taper attachment feature and still has the motor generator set-up. anyways on to the pictures then I'll have a couple of questions.
It also has an older DRO on it. Unfortunately it's missing one pushbutton that I'll have to try and scrounge up
Then there's this part. The exciter? I thought everything was supposed to be under the bed of the lathe and not external? I've looked at an awful lot of Monarch 10EE restoration threads and I can't remember ever seeing something like this???????? It works as I saw the lathe power up before we loaded it in the trailer. (This a probably a very newbee question and you guys are gonna tell me that yup that's the way they work)
Seems it was rebuilt at some point.
The problems so far
It has a significant gear oil leak somewhere. You see on the bottom of the apron on the first picture it's very oily/dirty and there's a visibly wet mark under the spindle end of the lathe. Is there a common leak in this area that I should start with? It's way to dirty at the moment to diagnose where the leak is....
The bottom left end cover is missing a chunk. Is there anyone here that's parting out a lathe at the moment?
It needs a cross slide nut. The one that's in there has about .100 of backlash.
I'm sure that as soon as I have time and it's finally clean that there will be more
The correct color for this year is? I've only seen gray ones and the beige newer ones in real life. This one has green under the gray (gray was definitely a repaint, it's peeling off everywhere) and then some red I assume the red was primer). Is there a PPG or some other manufacturers color code that everyone feels is correct?
Thank you for your time and I look forward to sharing the steps along the way to my lathe being restored.
Lance