Summit 19-4 x 60 clean, repair and rebuild.

[Ryanjax]

I've been working on the compound. To get it apart I had to loosen the black lock ring. Seems like that holds the whole assembly together. It was threaded with acme threads. Once I got that loose the leadscrew came right out. After the leadscrew was out the brass nut slid out.

The dial seemed to be held in by a small piece of spring steel. It had an odd cut to it like it was broken.

Can I reverse plate the hand wheels then nickel plate?

The upper and lower parts of the compound are being de-rusted by electrolysis.

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[NCjeeper]

Good sized lathe.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

dang, that's a lathe and a half! I was going to suggest electrolysis, but you're already onto that

 

[Richard King 2]

I was asking questions in a post about a manual but thought I would get a thread started to document my progress.

I picked up a Summit 19-4 x 60 lathe from a diesel performance shop that never got it hooked up because they didn't have 3 phase. It sat for at least 5 years and was backed into by a truck in the shop.

Here is the picture from the ad.

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Backed into and tipped over? Or just bumped into?

 

[Ryanjax]

Backed into and tipped over? Or just bumped into?

Doesn't looked to have been tipped over.

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[Richard King 2]

That's what I was thinking, what happened to it? Handles bent. Why tell us if nothing was wrong with it?

 

[bhigdog]

YEAH BABY! Dat be a lathe.................Bob

 

[Ryanjax]

The electrolysis worked great on the compound. Got it all cleaned up and masked then applied primer and Waterborne Alkyd Urethane from SW.

 

[Ryanjax]

I also started cleaning up the tailstock. It came apart pretty easily. I'm going to need to remove some rust and get the heavy grease cleaned up from the screw and gears. It's hard and crunchy, Simple Green in my parts washer doesn't really touch it.

Also on the brass nut for the screw there was a big nick over one of the cap screws. Wasn't sure it that was there for a reason.

 

[Cadillac]

I wish my lathe had a tailstock handle setup like that. What happen with the carriage hand wheel missing, victim to the accident?