SO.. I removed all the old grease and grime from the internal gears, cleaned the ways and ram slide surfaces, cleaned out the oiling holes, lubed it up, and this thing works smooth as silk. power table feed and tool down feed work fine. i cleaned all the vernier scales, lubed up the tool feed, it all works good. I scrubbed and lubed the table ways, jack screw shaft, and it works as well, however its really work moving that table anywhere, i dont think i will do that for fun. the 1914 model says it has a roller bearing table... well this isnt. So if i ever see one, i will get it, not likely. Could still be grime, i see one of the gib screws wont move, so they could have tightened them to hold it stationary, as it looks like it only had one job for along time. I was wrong, the vise is only 15 inches opening. And no name anywhere so far. Odd someone would make that giant iron vise and put no name on it. Stranger still is the mounting. its got 4 bolts with home made j clamps going into t nuts pushed against the table, it dont line up. However it has a key cut into the vice to hold it in place. Odd they put the time into that, but not making it bolt on. I also found, that with maximum wedge, it will go down .060 at a whack. not measured the maximum cross travel yet, the holder for the pushrod needs work n both corners to get maximum, its fine for me until i get it fixed. If you center the ram, the travel stroke is easy to adjust. Over all i think this will work just fine. i have to sharpen the push levers and the gears a bit from wear, but thats simple. I did , however find that the drive gears for the ram position feed are completely junk and gone. i was bummed out, until i looked on ebay and found 14 pages of bevel gear sets. Of course the shafts are .620. not .625. not metric. Bogus. now i need to remove the top lead screw and change that. I dont like the odds of my finding a .620 drill anywhere.
