GrantGunderson
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2021
- Location
- Bellingham, WA
Hi guys, I am long time lurker on here and after 5 plus years of searching, I ended up picking up a round dial machine from 1944 with the original tool cabinet, two steady rests a follower rests, 3 chucks and a bunch of tooling for less than what a SB9 project lathe seems to go for here in the PNW.
All of the accessories have a EE number stamped on them that match the lathes SN so I believe they are all original.
From reading on here, I thought the round dials where 12", but the machine label reads 12.5" Guess i'll need to measure to confirm this is a "new height" machine, not that it really matters.
Does anyone have any idea what the triangle with the 35 in it means next to the serial number stamped on the ways? This machine has a Westinghouse inventory tag on it and I believe they where the original owner.
When I inspected the machine, it was running on 220V 3 phase power and everything ran as it should, but its all covered in oil. Thats cleaning up nicely so far. I do plan on doing a pretty complete restoration of the machine, but do not plan on scraping the ways as they seem to be in pretty good shape and I'd probably do more damage than good then attempts scraping. (I did that all the way down to the last screw on my Bridgeport when I bought it). All of the wiring on the machine appears original, with the exception of the wires going from the motor panel to the control panel. Since I can see copper in spots where the insulation is worn or broken, I am going to replace all of the wiring with modern machine tool wire and the proper wire terminals. I'm going to pull the existing wire / control prior to cleaning the inside of the machine.
So that brings me to what will probably be just the start of many questions IU have about this machine. Can you guys ID the electrical components in the control panel for me? Specifically I am most interested in the moment as to what the devices are in the photo bellow that I labeled #3 as they appear quite corroded. Are these old oil filled capacitors?
The guy I bought the machine from gave me a binder that has what appears to be two different sets of the original photocopied manual from Monarch. However the only electrical diagram only has a drawing and none of the actual Componets on the drawing are labeled other Than the DC motor, Exciter, Generator, and AC Motor.
I have been slowly reading back through all of the immense info you guys have posted here over the years and have been searching the forum and have found it all to be quite informative. So thanks for providing such an amazing resource for these machines!
All of the accessories have a EE number stamped on them that match the lathes SN so I believe they are all original.
From reading on here, I thought the round dials where 12", but the machine label reads 12.5" Guess i'll need to measure to confirm this is a "new height" machine, not that it really matters.
Does anyone have any idea what the triangle with the 35 in it means next to the serial number stamped on the ways? This machine has a Westinghouse inventory tag on it and I believe they where the original owner.
When I inspected the machine, it was running on 220V 3 phase power and everything ran as it should, but its all covered in oil. Thats cleaning up nicely so far. I do plan on doing a pretty complete restoration of the machine, but do not plan on scraping the ways as they seem to be in pretty good shape and I'd probably do more damage than good then attempts scraping. (I did that all the way down to the last screw on my Bridgeport when I bought it). All of the wiring on the machine appears original, with the exception of the wires going from the motor panel to the control panel. Since I can see copper in spots where the insulation is worn or broken, I am going to replace all of the wiring with modern machine tool wire and the proper wire terminals. I'm going to pull the existing wire / control prior to cleaning the inside of the machine.
So that brings me to what will probably be just the start of many questions IU have about this machine. Can you guys ID the electrical components in the control panel for me? Specifically I am most interested in the moment as to what the devices are in the photo bellow that I labeled #3 as they appear quite corroded. Are these old oil filled capacitors?
The guy I bought the machine from gave me a binder that has what appears to be two different sets of the original photocopied manual from Monarch. However the only electrical diagram only has a drawing and none of the actual Componets on the drawing are labeled other Than the DC motor, Exciter, Generator, and AC Motor.
I have been slowly reading back through all of the immense info you guys have posted here over the years and have been searching the forum and have found it all to be quite informative. So thanks for providing such an amazing resource for these machines!
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