Hi there,
my name is Pete, I come from Czech Republic and I work as ndt and welding expert. As I already have enough of that at work I got me a dog and became interested into machining. Had some tiny bench MDB 3500 lathe from China and after looking at old nice machines at this forum, I have finaly got one Schaublin, 102 VM, probably manufactured in 50's.
I thought, I will just recondition it a bit, change the belt and use it. Unfortunatelly, I got stuck at removing the headstock. Have spent quite some time, but couldn't find anybody that has ever done it on the Schaublin I have and documented it. I have removed two eccentric bolts from behind the headstock and removed two inbus bolts, that connected the headstock from the bottom, through the "leg", what a horrible place to loose it.. The headstock got loose, but cannot move it towards support, neither up(4 mm only). Should there be any more bolts or pins, maybe, it could be connected to the gearbox. I have cleaned it as much as I could, not to have wedge effect from debries , when tried to push it out.
Unfortunatelly, as I am not sure what year it is, I cannot find it in the right manual. Have been checking 1953.
Any input would be appreciated. I would like to add a pic, but cannot find the button. Will do my best though.
Regards,
Pete
my name is Pete, I come from Czech Republic and I work as ndt and welding expert. As I already have enough of that at work I got me a dog and became interested into machining. Had some tiny bench MDB 3500 lathe from China and after looking at old nice machines at this forum, I have finaly got one Schaublin, 102 VM, probably manufactured in 50's.
I thought, I will just recondition it a bit, change the belt and use it. Unfortunatelly, I got stuck at removing the headstock. Have spent quite some time, but couldn't find anybody that has ever done it on the Schaublin I have and documented it. I have removed two eccentric bolts from behind the headstock and removed two inbus bolts, that connected the headstock from the bottom, through the "leg", what a horrible place to loose it.. The headstock got loose, but cannot move it towards support, neither up(4 mm only). Should there be any more bolts or pins, maybe, it could be connected to the gearbox. I have cleaned it as much as I could, not to have wedge effect from debries , when tried to push it out.
Unfortunatelly, as I am not sure what year it is, I cannot find it in the right manual. Have been checking 1953.
Any input would be appreciated. I would like to add a pic, but cannot find the button. Will do my best though.
Regards,
Pete