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Offline awemawson

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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #50 on: September 25, 2016, 10:39:55 AM »
Rob, was it new when you got it, or had a previous owner 'breathed' on it ? That lead screw nut implies someone had driven it hard into overtravel  :bugeye:
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #51 on: September 25, 2016, 10:44:38 AM »
All those issues have been sorted John  :dremel:


 



I just have not had time nor the interest in the project ,one day I will get back on with it .

Why not go for a used industrial machine ?


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #52 on: September 25, 2016, 10:48:24 AM »
Only if it has workshop space below it.  By the way Rob, nice setup you have.
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #53 on: September 25, 2016, 10:50:26 AM »
Rob, was it new when you got it, or had a previous owner 'breathed' on it ? That lead screw nut implies someone had driven it hard into overtravel  :bugeye:

It was a year old when I got it Andrew , and the old bloke sadly died a few months after getting it . The screw nut is as fit from new ,just very poor quality . but at the time they where £1400 new ,so at the end of the day what can one expects for that sort of money .


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #54 on: September 25, 2016, 10:50:41 AM »
Well back to reality now ,back from my holidays  :(

So to cheer myself up I went a wee road trip to pick up a few incidentals for the Bridgeport.  :dremel:



Slotting head and HZ quill adaptor , then wile down country I popped into Arceurotrade  for a 6 inch machine vice and a wee bit R8 tooling ,the lad there makes a cracking cup of tea  :thumbup: , then on the way back I swung buy Joules house to drop off the X,Y thing and have  bit crack , his lass also makes a canny brew  :coffee:

Suppose I better put my Boxford shaper and Lathe up for sale ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,groan ,let battle begin  :lol: 




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You should have called in and you could have taken a van load of steel and other stuff with you. Mind you we only serve coffee  :doh:
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #55 on: September 25, 2016, 10:55:28 AM »
Hmmmmm, I had my heart set on a Warco 626 for years, but if I'm going to buy a project....    :scratch:   Might as well be any of the available mills these days.

I am sure there are good versions of the 626 mill out there , did Myford manufacture a variant ?  what is the 626 mill a copy of ?  would be interesting to know its origins .

Luckily converting it to CNC meant I got to throw  out most of the crap parts  :med:


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #56 on: September 25, 2016, 10:59:34 AM »
Mind you we only serve coffee  :doh:

Black three sugars next  time John  :thumbup:


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #57 on: September 25, 2016, 11:05:10 AM »
Looks like the 626 is a copy of the Myford VM  http://www.lathes.co.uk/myfordmillers/page2.html 

now one of those would sit next to your S7 nicely Joules


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #58 on: September 25, 2016, 11:19:45 AM »
Had been saving for 2yrs before Myford went tits up for one of their VME's, blew it all on new computers and 3D printers    :(   I still lust after one every time I see a secondhand advertised.
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #60 on: September 25, 2016, 12:04:18 PM »
I need to be content with the little SU1, with a few mods and some TLC like you have provide to the 626 I'm sure this would be a cracking little desktop knee mill.  It's just crying out for a better vertical head arrangement, either bolted on the overarm as is, or a new block to sit on the column and provide the spindle with a rack and pinion lift, bit like a hybrid Aciera F1

I can but dream   :drool: 
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« Reply #61 on: September 25, 2016, 12:28:22 PM »
Joules I am sure you SU1 will turn out to be a very versatile machine when your finished modding it  :proj:


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #62 on: September 25, 2016, 12:54:36 PM »
 :lol:

    This one is going CNC, so a very different life to a manual machine.
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #64 on: September 25, 2016, 05:15:56 PM »
John if you need some horizontal  cutters pm me your address and I will send you some. Mike

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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #65 on: September 25, 2016, 05:21:26 PM »
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #66 on: September 25, 2016, 05:36:03 PM »
:lol:

    This one is going CNC, so a very different life to a manual machine.

I am sure it will be a very different machine by the time your finished with it Joules  :dremel:  , well unless the dog  eats it first  :lol:

You planning on getting the young lad involved with the conversion ?


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #67 on: September 26, 2016, 08:29:41 AM »
I hope so, plan on teaching him to use a dial gauge so he can measure play in all the ways and get a feel for too loose and too tight, plus it will be an exercise in how things work.  I can see next years Doncaster Show being fun for him.  He should just have enough knowledge by then to be dangerous.

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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #68 on: September 27, 2016, 05:12:27 AM »
There be one on ebay now http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MYFORD-VM-C-VERTICAL-MILLING-MACHINE-/131941519372?hash=item1eb853d00c:g:Oq0AAOSw4shX3Gs8


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I watched it to the end....it sold at its starting price....
I didnt buy it, 'er-indoors' said" you dont know what you are buying..." Good point...I guess...plus the fact that its 2/3rds the cost of a new machine and I would have had the aggro of collectiing from Wales...

Ah well, I'll keep looking dreaming... :coffee:
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #69 on: October 01, 2016, 07:32:11 AM »
One day John  :med:

Well I decided to have a wee road trip South again this morning , about a 370 mile round trip .Made it  back in time for lunch   :)





1100 Kgs of joy  :dremel:


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #70 on: October 01, 2016, 08:02:49 AM »
I take it once you got upto speed, you couldn't  stop as you whizzed past Rotherham   :lol:

Never fails to amaze me how you shoe horn loads into that van and then get them out.

Nice one Rob.
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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #71 on: October 01, 2016, 08:15:53 AM »
Aye once the van  attained  maximum forward velocity there was no stopping me   :) , I will be back down your way in a few weeks  :thumbup:


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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #72 on: October 01, 2016, 09:13:12 AM »
Rob,

Surely there's not enough room for that and a Bridgeport in your Tardis!

Or have some things got to go to make space?

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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #73 on: October 01, 2016, 10:13:15 AM »
Hi Phil

Yes some machines will be going, the  Boxford shaper ,Boxford  lathe  and maybe a grinder or two  , I sold all the foundry gear earlier in the year and I have allot more reorganisation of the workshop to do , all good fun .

Suppose  I better remove the lathe from the van now  :dremel:

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Re: Arboga Geared Head Drill tart up
« Reply #74 on: October 01, 2016, 01:26:06 PM »


Suppose  I better remove the lathe from the van now  :dremel:

Rob

I'd love to see how you achieved this amazing feat of weight transferance..... :scratch:
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