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Plastic
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Apr 19, 2015
Can someone give me any advice on how to remove the bed rails on my Hembrug lathe . I would like to have them ground . Are new stock rails available ? If so where from ?
 
Don't. I asume you have a DR1S, where the rails are riveted to the casting. the headstock and the bed is a single casting. you have to treat it as one piece. I know, because I owned one and have regrind every slide to correct geometry. In the Netherlands there are two or three company's who can do this job. The last DR1 is manufactured about late '70's and spares are getting real scares.
 
Ducbertus is right You have 2 problems With grinding this lathebedThe bedways have to be alligned with the bores of the headstock Its a si gle piece you remember And also you have to grind with a relativily small cupwheel Otherwise you cannot reach the end of the waysYour grinder needs to be ableto stopin tn a exaxt position each time No problem for a cnc machine But it is for a hydraulic machine
If ypu replace only the top it neverwill be straigt
Peter
 








 
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