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6th Feb 2017, 11:20 PM #91Most Valued Member
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Sorry, wasn't aware that it's a flat belt that is required. Would conveyor belting do? Once you work out the length, get a belting company to glue on up for you.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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7th Feb 2017, 01:11 AM #92
Are you sure your model has a separate belt for the table drive, Greg? The only model I'm aware of that has one is the model with a direct spindle drive.... I thought the spindle belt went all the way around the table drive pulley too..... but I've been wrong before.... lots of times....
Cheers, Joe
retired - less energy, more time to contemplate projects and more shed time....
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7th Feb 2017, 07:14 AM #93Philomath in training
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Rydell belting is normally the place recommended for flat drive belts.
That 19/64" bolt is a nuisance - It's possibly 5/16" (could be wrong) but the tpi sure is not standard.
Michael
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7th Feb 2017, 08:13 AM #94Golden Member
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No troubles Kryn. I am always thankful for help!
Michael - their name cropped up. Cool. Re the 19/64 bolt. I went and checked again this morning. Yup. 0.295" OD. Near enough. Guy at the bolt shop said he'd never seen one before. Lucky I have one intact that fits otherwise it might have been tricky trying to figure that out. I'll make some, but I've not yet found any connectors to get my new 'import' weed burner hooked up to my BBQ bottle so I can heat treat stuff - but that is another story.
Hi Joe, I am pretty sure this one needs two belt. See pic. The second one just drives the table. There is a small pulley on the back of the main pulley for it. Notice how it is crossed over. I could be wrong but I am pretty sure that is how my model is supposed to work.
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I guess it also has to be fairly snug on there. It certainly looks so in the pic.
Greg.
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7th Feb 2017, 10:26 AM #95Most Valued Member
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Great progress! If you need them I have decent selection of taper pin reamers, annoyingly not many pins though, I find them very difficult to find here.
Regards - Ralph
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7th Feb 2017, 01:01 PM #97Most Valued Member
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If I'd been going to buy *one* new chuck, I'd have bought the best 4 jaw I could get my hands on. I rarely bother with a 3 jaw chuck. Generally it's a collet or a 4 jaw.
Not surprised you found oddball bolts. Manufacturers tend to make their own standards. You just have to make replacements when you find them and curse the original design engineers along with their offspring to the 4th generation. No need to go overboard about it.
PDW
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7th Feb 2017, 08:19 PM #98Most Valued Member
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Re your bolt, would it be easier to fit in the next size available standard bolt? Unless you're going for originality.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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8th Feb 2017, 11:22 AM #99Banned
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Never ceases to amaze me. Them big old lumps of metal being made to work via bits of cow.
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8th Feb 2017, 12:36 PM #100Golden Member
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PDW: re the bolt. Hah! Agree. It wasn't even yet the depression so no need to skimp out on metal. During the war years (and sometime after) it seems bolts in the UK became odd sizes with odd heads to save on metal .. so I found out when doing the Alba shaper.
Re the chuck. ) I have also bought a 4 jaw that I believe is better quality than the H&F ones. I've no backing plate for it yet so I can't mount it, but I butchered the old mount for the 3 jaw so I could use the new 3 chuck. Good riddance. I like using collets and have a 5c to er32 collet adapter for the lathe but the draw bar handle is waay to big and wobbly to spin at speed. I'll make a special er32 collet chuck at some stage.
Kryn, hey not a bad idea. I'll see if I can make some first. I've got some silver steel and I think I may have solved my "how to attach the weed burner to the BBQ bottle" issue to heat treat them. I dropped by a BOC this morning and got an adapter that *might* fit the hose and the bottle. I did get an 8mm barbed jobby that I thought would do it but 8mm is too big .. so found something similar at 5mm.
On the belt, if Joe's replacement (thanks Joe) is the right size then I might just be able to make a table belt from the old main belt. I have that - but not the old table belt. That old bit of cow sat in the rain for 10 years but my guess is it was so full of oil and crap that it has been preserved. It's not too bad.
As an aside, I went looking (again) for a source of taper pins. The last lot I bought are not long enough. Blackwoods sells boxes of 100 for $300 plus! McMaster carr in the US sells 25 for $8 US. Guess where I am placing an order ....
Greg.
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8th Feb 2017, 12:50 PM #101Senior Member
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Hi Greg
For taper pins try bolt.com.auIMG_0128.PNG
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8th Feb 2017, 01:29 PM #102Golden Member
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Hey, nice link. $1.45 for a 1.5" pin. Excellent. I'll support the Aussie shop. Thanks.
Greg.
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8th Feb 2017, 01:58 PM #103
Really? I've never been able to get anything from McMaster Carr, if you manage it, I would be very interested to find out the secret. They don't ship to Australia, and they don't ship to mail forwarders either.
But it's probably irrelevant, since you are now getting them from a local supplier.
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12th Feb 2017, 03:32 PM #104Golden Member
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Ray, you've got me curious about McCaster Carr now. I'll try to order a knick knack!
I have finished the final cleanup and painting and most items that were left out in the elements. I'm leaving the carriage and table for now. I now really want to get things down to must making or finding the bits that are needed to get it mechanically going again - "except for the spindle". The spindle will have to be a thing in itself.
Here is the painted stuff:
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The grinder body and column were inside the farm shed and not in the rain so I'll not be painting them. I'll likely just get some cutting compound and a buffer on that paint to clean it up a little in the hope that under the ground in gunk the paint is a little lighter and perhaps a better match for the, erm, colour matched paint. It did the same for the Alba shaper and the paint actually came up very well - thought it certainly was in better condition that this paint.
Oh, and the red is not my artistic expression, those bits were actually originally red. The inside of the cabinet door is red too, as it the 'well' area on the table.
The belt rollers also needed cleanup and reassembly. There are three. A big thanks to forum member jhovel who bought around a box of bearing bits from his B&S #2 conversion. It had enough bearings in there so that I didn't have to buy any. Thanks again Joe. Very much appreciated. I used them all. )
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As an aside Joe, re the 'two belts' thing. Here is the little pulley on the back of the main pulley that drives the table gubbins. It is quite geared down.
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Next, I have to make some 1:48 tapered stuff. Pins, yes, but not the off-the-shelf sort. I need two pins with threaded ends on them - they actually screw in to their housing. And also, two quite large pins to hold the clutch unit in - the photo in the previous post with the rusty pin on the parts diagram. It turns out that it is actually a largish taper pin with a hex head on it.
Another weird thread cropped up. One of the threads on the end of the belts roller shafts is a (wait for it) 1/2" 14. Not a UNC 1/2" 13. Nope. 14. I checked it about 5 times. 14. And it was crossed threaded so I had a bugger of a time getting the nut on. Actually, I used at thread file to clean up the 14.
Greg.
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12th Feb 2017, 05:37 PM #105Banned
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The reply I got from McMaster-Carr is they only supply their established Oz clients. I'm guessing that means the larger US based or affiliated Oz company's.
What I find handy about the McMaster-Carr site is the prices are listed so I have a start figure when shopping about.
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