Is This Worth Restoring?

Well of course it's worth restoring , Is it a J head (step pulleys) , that's my favorite . Varidrive is a PITA in MHO . I have had both . From looking at the pics. the ways , I think are looking good . The brown stuff might be just dried oil . I say just clean it up and make chips . Just sayin' .
 
Yeah, the chrome is only a couple thousandths thick. You can see where the chrome is starting to peel/wear off. I wouldn't loose any sleep over it. Use it like it is until something better comes along. Some day in the future, if you wanted to replate the slides, I know some people in Red Deer that do plating. It's not cheap, but can be done. Ken
 
She isn't a Jig Bore. But, then she never was.
As Billh50 wrote: tolerances.
What are you trying to do with her?
How tight/sloppy is the spindle?

Daryl
MN
its just going to be a general purpose machine for me it's my first machine so plan on making some small tooling for myself like 1-2-3 blocks, tap blocks and little things like that I also do alot of automotive type stuff, repairs custom made parts etc... Might be resurfacing the odd cylinder head here and there. How would I go abouts measuring for slop in the spindle? It feels pretty tight when I turn it if that's what you mean?

Well of course it's worth restoring , Is it a J head (step pulleys) , that's my favorite . Varidrive is a PITA in MHO . I have had both . From looking at the pics. the ways , I think are looking good . The brown stuff might be just dried oil . I say just clean it up and make chips . Just sayin' .
thanks ideally I would really like to just clean it up and make chips the last thing I wana do is go into a full rebuild even though I know it's going to need one soon but if I can get some use out of it before hand that'd be great! Its a 4j head they don't make these anymore unfortunately. one more reason I wana keep it, I like old vintage type stuff that doesn't exist anymore I think thats cool lol
So basically the general consensus is I should just clean it up and make chips and not worry too much about the ways? The spots that are missing the chrome seem like they are gouged so I was worried about that and the z axis takes quite a bit of stamina to bring from full stop to full stop is that just cuz of its weight or could that be another issue?
 
the z axis takes quite a bit of stamina to bring from full stop to full stop is that just cuz of its weight or could that be another issue?

I assume we are talking about the knee. It's heavy!;) Get the ways cleaned up and everything oiled up and grease the screw and it should be easier.
 
The ways look fine just need a good cleaning. Please post pictures of the rest of the machine.
 
I don't have very many pictures of it but here are the ones that I have! :) these are all before I got it home it was quite the task moving it!IMG_20160830_142901.jpg IMG_20160830_142822.jpg IMG_20160830_140831.jpg IMG_20160906_163404.jpg
 
That's a lot of mill, Nice Score!
 
Thank you! I think I was very lucky to get it I honestly never thought I'd be able to afford something like this but I know what these machines can do and I couldn't pass up such a cheap machine! I dated it to 1972 the series number is 872. I thought it was an 81 at first because of the date on the wiring diagrams but then I ran the serial number and found out it was even older lol
 
Nice! :you suck:

Figured I should throw that in there now that I'm jealous. I'll just have to keep limping along on my old RF30. Dang!
Ah well. Prob'ly couldn't have afforded it and trailered it home anyway. Dang!
 
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