In February 2013, I bought a Logan 820. Serial Number is 24157 (Made in 1944, it would be be interesting to know its history). A good project for my upcoming retirement!
This Logan was to be an upgrade from the Atlas 618 I've had for the past 4 years and that served as my entry into this home machining hobby. The 820 was operational, but clearly in need of some refurbishing.
In April I retired. First, I needed to get the Atlas repaired and sold to make some room in the garage. Had to move the Atlas every time I needed to get to my X2 minimill.
Preparatory Logan work: Get AXA toolholders for the Logan, the parts diagram/list, a face plate, threading dial, and other assorted tooling. I made chuck keys for the 8" 4-jaw chuck, and then overhauled the chuck, and overhauled the 3-jaw chuck. (Both interesting exercises in their own righ!)
Finally, I used the Logan to make new cross slide and compound slide crank handles for the Atlas. Now it's sold, gone, and I've got room to tackle the Logan.
Here is the starting point, prior to whatever degree of restoration I get done.
Some major issues I hope to remedy:
And now it's July, Stay tuned as I dig in. I welcome your feedback, ideas, hints, comments of any kind.
Greg
This Logan was to be an upgrade from the Atlas 618 I've had for the past 4 years and that served as my entry into this home machining hobby. The 820 was operational, but clearly in need of some refurbishing.
In April I retired. First, I needed to get the Atlas repaired and sold to make some room in the garage. Had to move the Atlas every time I needed to get to my X2 minimill.
Preparatory Logan work: Get AXA toolholders for the Logan, the parts diagram/list, a face plate, threading dial, and other assorted tooling. I made chuck keys for the 8" 4-jaw chuck, and then overhauled the chuck, and overhauled the 3-jaw chuck. (Both interesting exercises in their own righ!)
Finally, I used the Logan to make new cross slide and compound slide crank handles for the Atlas. Now it's sold, gone, and I've got room to tackle the Logan.
Here is the starting point, prior to whatever degree of restoration I get done.
Some major issues I hope to remedy:
- QCGB: left selector arm is almost frozen. With the aid of a brass rod and a mallet, it does shift and appears to work okay. Hard to read the gear chart, if it doesn't clean up then I'll get one from Logan Actuator.
- Headstock: Backgear lever missing the detent mechanism. Oil leaking on the left hand spindle pulley. I'm not sure if it's leaking from the "Oil" setscrew or the other setscrew, and not sure if the setscrews are quite the right length and type.
- Apron and saddle: Apron leaks oil. I'm not sure when the lathe was lasted oiled, but it didn't appear to be very recently. Hopefully the prior owner(s) didn't do too much damage. There is no carriage lock, so I plan to make one or order one. Handwheel bushing is very worn and will be replaced. I assume that several other bushings in the apron are also worn. We'll see when I tear it down. Power feeds are in working condition; I'm not expecting major problems.
- Appearance: Ugly paint. The blue on the belt cover, legs, and tailstock is not too bad, but the headstock, bed, QCGB, apron/saddle, and tray need to be restored. I guess I'll make them blue to match.
- Leveling:The garage floor is not level. I plan to get/make some jackscrew-type levelers to put under the feet.
And now it's July, Stay tuned as I dig in. I welcome your feedback, ideas, hints, comments of any kind.
Greg