Super 55

ThunderDog

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Just thought I would share my near complete restoration of my Super 55. I might get bashed for posting this because someone may say I'm double posting from a different sub-forum, but the Wells Index forum is kind of small.
Super excited to make some chips with this machine. I scraped it(link here), had Wells Index grind the spindle to an R8, purchased a VFD, and removed a massive pile of nasty dried up grease and crud. I'm in the market for a DRO, currently. One of the first projects will be to make the bracket for the power feed that is attached to the right side of the table. It was broken into several pieces when I bought it. The gear on the sliding shaft of the power feed is also wollered out and the key is stripped on the keyway, too. Anyway, just sharing what I'm up to in my garage.
Some pics of the progress more can be seen in the above link.

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Looks great. How many hours do you have in the scrapping? Mike
 
Haha, you know I've wondered that several times along the way. If I were to guess I would say about 50-60 hours, maybe more.:grin big: That is factoring in my learning curve when it comes to understanding alignment, moving things around in the garage, knocking together some wood cribs/cradles/etc. for the saddle, table, gibs, and knee.
 
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Wow you really went to town with that guy. Looks like new- even Wells would be impressed I think
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Beautiful job. :encourage: Uh hem.... If you ever get bored you'd be welcome to come out and fix up my WI 860. :grin: I'm almost embarrassed to look at mine now.

-Ron
 
These are pretty cool old machines. Here's mine.

 
These are pretty cool old machines. Here's mine.


Nice, how are you running yours? VFD, rotary phase, or just lucky enough to have 3 phase? I ask because I swapped the table feed motor for a 110V because I didn't want to buy another vfd just for it. Of course, with the 110V I only have one feed direction.
 
Mine came with a static phase converter. But I have a rotary phase converter and VFD in the works.
 
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