Summit model 19-4 19x60" resurrecting

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Well well, got around to cleaning all the old shafts and gears up, turned some bearing races out of 4340 chromoly, accurate to .0003" Press fit on one side, race on the other. (they are the two shiny round things on the gear)

Mocked up a couple shafts, she is going to look sweet when I finish her!

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Got this part fixed, turned it down and sleeved it with 4340 chromoly. This is for the power feed for the compound. It had about .25” of play when I started haha. Non now. Next is to put it all together!

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Finally finished the lathe's apron off, took 9 hours strait to put her back together and get everything fit up/ welded etc, its only going to get so good with me, tolerances are tight, its put together right and that's where it counts haha
Still a good bit of work left to do on her, but right now she does run.

 

[FOMOGO]

Looking good! A lot of work involved there, but that will be a very capable machine when you get her finished. Cheers, Mike

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Looking good! A lot of work involved there, but that will be a very capable machine when you get her finished. Cheers, Mike

Thank you!
And I agree, she use to do some real heavy work, still need to replace a couple bearings in the headstock, same with a weak clutch pack, then make some handles I am missing.
In time.

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

First turning job she is doing, making a new handle for the leadscrew (no more vise grips yay!). Gotta finish it yet but my weekend ran out.

She also helped fix the coolant system.

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Quick vid, testing what she can do .15" doc (.3" off the Od) 330 rpm at .012" per rev feed. no complaints in the slightest.
I would have tried more, but i burned the heck out of my hand in that video, hence why its short haha.
View attachment summitturning.mov

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Hey you guys! Hope things have been well~
As always i seem to be working on projects... Needed some 2-4-6 blocks so I decided to make some since I had a big block of qt-100 lying around (4x4x6") figured it was a good test to see what the machines could do. the forte250 cut it off in 6min witch was a pleasant surprise,

But I mainly wanted to see how the mechanicy was running, we were adjusting some brushes for the clutches nd wanted to see how strong they were holding, they held in .2" doc 4" woc 6ipm at 330rpm.
I also started on some 123 blocks, making 12 of those out of some scrap i had.

That old mill does some beautiful finishes <3

 

[Zyox Jägergeist]

Decided to pull the top of the carriage and taper attachment apart on the summit this weekend as i thought I could clean it up and make her better.
Found a couple of bearings it needed for the Z leadscrew, few missing bolts here and there aswell.

Taper attachment was seized pretty good.

Taper attachment actually slides and adjusts now, but waiting on the couple bearings and such before I get it completely back together.
It was filthy, most of the oil passages were clogged and everything was full of chips.

 

[jcp]

We had two of these lathes in the shop I worked at (31 years). On one of them the bed oiler ceased to work and the bed/apron wore appreciably. It ended up getting sold off. The second one is still working in the shop today. These are remarkably good, accurate and dependable machines if the maintenance is kept up. Summit Machine Tool is about 1 1/2 hrs from where I live.