Anatol
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles
Hi
because I know youall like pics, here's some of my rebuild in process of a 1959 10K. PO had slapped a lot of paint on it, and I had at first thought I'd just rebuild and leave the pale gray paint, but once I started scraping paint away from places it shouldn't be, on knobs and oilers, etc, I figured if this was going to be my lathe for the forseeable, I might as well make it mine. I'm partial to hammerite, but it seems there's a world shortage of most colors, so I mixed my own pale green. And color coded the controls. Now I think its a bit christmassy, but oh well.
I replaced all the felts - that was a good idea. Most were black and set hard (years of wrong oil and sediment?) and many looked like someone had shaken glitter on them. So, no doubt overdue.
When I got the gearbox reassembled, I found I had a dowel pin remaining in my parts tray - not a good feeling. P31 of the ILION book shows a pic with a suspiciously familiar looking dowel pin. Mine is Its 5/32 (.156) x 1 1/8 but the books calls it 1/8th. I recall wondering why some gears had holes in them - I assumed they were oil holes. But why are only some of the gears pinned? Something to do with the logic of the gearbox, no doubt. Looks like I'll be tearing it down again. Traps for young players as my mother used to say.
because I know youall like pics, here's some of my rebuild in process of a 1959 10K. PO had slapped a lot of paint on it, and I had at first thought I'd just rebuild and leave the pale gray paint, but once I started scraping paint away from places it shouldn't be, on knobs and oilers, etc, I figured if this was going to be my lathe for the forseeable, I might as well make it mine. I'm partial to hammerite, but it seems there's a world shortage of most colors, so I mixed my own pale green. And color coded the controls. Now I think its a bit christmassy, but oh well.
I replaced all the felts - that was a good idea. Most were black and set hard (years of wrong oil and sediment?) and many looked like someone had shaken glitter on them. So, no doubt overdue.
When I got the gearbox reassembled, I found I had a dowel pin remaining in my parts tray - not a good feeling. P31 of the ILION book shows a pic with a suspiciously familiar looking dowel pin. Mine is Its 5/32 (.156) x 1 1/8 but the books calls it 1/8th. I recall wondering why some gears had holes in them - I assumed they were oil holes. But why are only some of the gears pinned? Something to do with the logic of the gearbox, no doubt. Looks like I'll be tearing it down again. Traps for young players as my mother used to say.