Hello guys
Well, I have been cleaning, and repairing. The selctor for the lead screw/ power feed would not turn. I had to take the levers and cover off of the lower gear box that controls feed speed. the slider would not slide. I found some distortions on the shaft around the key between the slider and drive shaft. I just cleaned that up and reassembled. I was thinking that it was due to a crash, but I can see no evedence of a crash. But may have been due to the state of the lead screw thrust bearing. When I removed the bearing block at the tailstock end, the bearing pocket resembled a rock crusher. One of the thrust bearing races was broken into little pieces and a few loose balls were left. I will add a few pictures. I'm afraid that I will have to turn the threaded end of the leadscrew down and rethread. I will also need to clean up the counterbore where the thrust bearing seats. I picked up some Devon Liquid Steel. I hope that will work to build up the bearing seat.
I did remove the entire carriage/saddle. As it turns out all of the oil passages were blocked with old hardend oil and dirt. had to repace the ball oilers. Also cleaned up and replaced the oilers and seal on the tailstock.
As a buddy of mine said "no better way to learn about a machine than to take it apart" and he is right.
On a side note. While on my roadtrip, 24 states 6,498 miles, almost 4 weeks. I was driving through Pensacola Fl. and decided to swing by the Booth Machine shop. I did try to contact Adam before I started the trip. I didnt get a response. I concluded the worse that can happen, is he can tell me to get lost. So we stopped by and met Abom79. He was very nice, didn't seem to mind us stopping by. And I got a tour of the shop.
Well, I have been cleaning, and repairing. The selctor for the lead screw/ power feed would not turn. I had to take the levers and cover off of the lower gear box that controls feed speed. the slider would not slide. I found some distortions on the shaft around the key between the slider and drive shaft. I just cleaned that up and reassembled. I was thinking that it was due to a crash, but I can see no evedence of a crash. But may have been due to the state of the lead screw thrust bearing. When I removed the bearing block at the tailstock end, the bearing pocket resembled a rock crusher. One of the thrust bearing races was broken into little pieces and a few loose balls were left. I will add a few pictures. I'm afraid that I will have to turn the threaded end of the leadscrew down and rethread. I will also need to clean up the counterbore where the thrust bearing seats. I picked up some Devon Liquid Steel. I hope that will work to build up the bearing seat.
I did remove the entire carriage/saddle. As it turns out all of the oil passages were blocked with old hardend oil and dirt. had to repace the ball oilers. Also cleaned up and replaced the oilers and seal on the tailstock.
As a buddy of mine said "no better way to learn about a machine than to take it apart" and he is right.
On a side note. While on my roadtrip, 24 states 6,498 miles, almost 4 weeks. I was driving through Pensacola Fl. and decided to swing by the Booth Machine shop. I did try to contact Adam before I started the trip. I didnt get a response. I concluded the worse that can happen, is he can tell me to get lost. So we stopped by and met Abom79. He was very nice, didn't seem to mind us stopping by. And I got a tour of the shop.
