You may have thought about and tried this already Jan, but is there any way depending on the orientation you bolt that head casting down to use a between centers boring bar on your lathe to re- bore for the main spindle on your lathes cross slide? The shimming and alignment would take quite awhile, but you may not have enough free elevation space above the cross slide or distance between centers to do so. A thought anyway.
Hmm.. nice idea! I haven't tried line boring the casting on my lathe, but could be it would have worked. The Russian hasa quite low center height but if one places the casting upside down it is not too far off. However, the casting itself is too wide for the cross slide. Could have tried the same on the milling machine actually.. I reckon that even though I also had very little room for using the tool to indicate the bore, it would not have been super critical radially and for teh short distance axially also not (but since I didn't try I am also not sure)
Wow Jan, you really are putting this machine back to a good state. You have exactly the same head casting and spindle assembly as my machine. When I stripped mine, the inside of the spindle bore is rough and full of mill scale, this was dropping down into the back of the lower taper roller bearing. I had no way to bore it out so I flap wheeled it and painted it to seal it up. Videos on my channel if you want to see. Keep going, you are doing a fantastic job. Cheers, Jon
Thnks. PS! It is not my machine. I am doing this for another person.. I'd like to call us "machine buddies", but "machine nerds" could probably also be a good description .. haha Anyway, I tried to do my best to cover what was done, which btw turned out to be quite a lot comprehensive than what I had anticipated! The owner had cleaned out the inside of the head himself, and I assume in the process also done away with all the "dirt" inside. I know from another friend that these machines often come with quite a lot of "unwanted particles" there.. On this machine he has also changed the bearings, which is probably a good idea as the original ones often are prone to "early decay" with the grease saturatde with cast iron dust.. Sounds like I need to take a look at your channel :)
Thanks. Yes, would recommend it. I think you get much functionality for the money, BUT you have to be honest about the design/build/quality limitations. Not sure, but believe there are several version out there, some 220V. At least, the one sold locally here is an 1100 Watt. 1,5 hk. 230V 1-ph.
the schaulling is VERY VERY GOOD MILLING MACHINE..good job jan
Thnks! Yes, the Schaublin is a nice mill :)
Jättefina videos Jan Sverre! Hälsningar från Sverige!
Takker!
You may have thought about and tried this already Jan, but is there any way depending on the orientation you bolt that head casting down to use a between centers boring bar on your lathe to re- bore for the main spindle on your lathes cross slide? The shimming and alignment would take quite awhile, but you may not have enough free elevation space above the cross slide or distance between centers to do so. A thought anyway.
Hmm.. nice idea! I haven't tried line boring the casting on my lathe, but could be it would have worked. The Russian hasa quite low center height but if one places the casting upside down it is not too far off. However, the casting itself is too wide for the cross slide. Could have tried the same on the milling machine actually.. I reckon that even though I also had very little room for using the tool to indicate the bore, it would not have been super critical radially and for teh short distance axially also not (but since I didn't try I am also not sure)
Wow Jan, you really are putting this machine back to a good state. You have exactly the same head casting and spindle assembly as my machine. When I stripped mine, the inside of the spindle bore is rough and full of mill scale, this was dropping down into the back of the lower taper roller bearing. I had no way to bore it out so I flap wheeled it and painted it to seal it up. Videos on my channel if you want to see. Keep going, you are doing a fantastic job. Cheers, Jon
Thnks. PS! It is not my machine. I am doing this for another person.. I'd like to call us "machine buddies", but "machine nerds" could probably also be a good description .. haha
Anyway, I tried to do my best to cover what was done, which btw turned out to be quite a lot comprehensive than what I had anticipated! The owner had cleaned out the inside of the head himself, and I assume in the process also done away with all the "dirt" inside. I know from another friend that these machines often come with quite a lot of "unwanted particles" there.. On this machine he has also changed the bearings, which is probably a good idea as the original ones often are prone to "early decay" with the grease saturatde with cast iron dust..
Sounds like I need to take a look at your channel :)
Your works are impressive. Would you recommend buying this machine? Does it work well at 220v? Thanks.
Thanks. Yes, would recommend it. I think you get much functionality for the money, BUT you have to be honest about the design/build/quality limitations. Not sure, but believe there are several version out there, some 220V. At least, the one sold locally here is an 1100 Watt. 1,5 hk. 230V 1-ph.
Thank you very much