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- Dec 29, 2012
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- 108
My latest SB, it's a 1979 CL-187ZB Heavy 10. It has the threaded spindle, but I have a 128 piece Hardinge 5C collet set, so I rarely use chucks anyway, and the price was right. It's a one owner machine, from a business that cut plastic with it since new. But that molten plastic had hardened in every last corner. The back gears were so mucked that they couldn't even turn! So the rebuild was more about removing the stubborn stuff and rewicking the entire machine. The machine came with a new Leeson 1hp/3ph that I hooked to a Automation Direct GS2 VFD. I chose the GS2 for it's sealed detachable keypad that I mounted in place of the old drum switch on the headstock bracket with a little fabrication. The vfd and fused cutoff sits in the box visible on the left side of the bench
I do alot of repetitive, close collet work that suited having a 4-position stop. I had always had the mic stops on previous machines and had never used the turret type. So I tried to find a user picture of a 10L with one attached. Not a single pic anywhere, other than the SB catalog closeup from the 50's. Apparently not many owners use these!
Anyway, Latheman (Ted) found me a nice one that I just completed painting. So for others that wonder how the 4-position carriage stop looks on a 10L...finally a picture of one.
The finished product
VFD mount
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3
I do alot of repetitive, close collet work that suited having a 4-position stop. I had always had the mic stops on previous machines and had never used the turret type. So I tried to find a user picture of a 10L with one attached. Not a single pic anywhere, other than the SB catalog closeup from the 50's. Apparently not many owners use these!
Anyway, Latheman (Ted) found me a nice one that I just completed painting. So for others that wonder how the 4-position carriage stop looks on a 10L...finally a picture of one.
The finished product
VFD mount
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3