Thread: Deckel FP2LB

Ray,

I have scans of the sales brochure and more importantly, the manual in English. GQ's info should be the same. He had lost ( probably misplaced, buried amongst his John Denver CDs ) his Wrench disc and I sent him a replacement, albeit an abbreviated version containing only Deckel stuff. A selfish act driven by a desire not to generate a competitive interest in the Swiss delights also contained on the original.

BT

ps. In the end it looks like both Greg and another bloke we know won the competition anyway!

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Ray,

I have scans of the sales brochure and more importantly, the manual in English. GQ's info should be the same. He had lost ( probably misplaced, buried amongst his John Denver CDs ) his Wrench disc and I sent him a replacement, albeit an abbreviated version containing only Deckel stuff. A selfish act driven by a desire not to generate a competitive interest in the Swiss delights also contained on the original.

BT

ps. In the end it looks like both Greg and another bloke we know won the competition anyway!

I'm really interested in the page that has the the lifting instructions for the FP2LB.

Originally Posted by Brobdingnagian

I'm really interested in the page that has the the lifting instructions for the FP2LB.

Fortunately I have a computer literate wife. While this is the beefier FP3L I imagine the lifting procedure is similar. Hope this helps.

BT
Deckel%20FP3L%20Lifting%20Instructions.jpg

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Fortunately I have a computer literate wife. While this is the beefier FP3L I imagine the lifting procedure is similar. Hope this helps.

BT
Deckel%20FP3L%20Lifting%20Instructions.jpg

Many Thanks BT, your a veritable star as is the aforementioned computer literate wife...

Sorting out lifting eyes and welding some caps on a steel bar as presently.



Anyone care to guess on the spacing and sizing of the T-slots?

-Josh

If my wife would answer her phone, there would be no guessing. How long before you head off?

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

If my wife would answer her phone, there would be no guessing. How long before you head off?

Plenty of time, got a while yet before the road trip, .... I'm just pleased you're not a John Denver fan....


Regards
Ray

Originally Posted by RayG

Plenty of time, got a while yet before the road trip, .... I'm just pleased you're not a John Denver fan....


Regards
Ray

Vicki will upload the manual for the FP3L to Dropbox. I have given her Josh's address. I'm hoping the 3 and the 2 share table slot sizes. Shame the tall Canadian's not around.

BT

Slot one set of holes in the board to cover T slot spacing.

I imagine that the T slots will be the same as the tool maker's mills...

Mine are 12mm tee slots on 40mm centres. The wide part of the slot is 20mm nominal, measures a bit wider at 20.8mm-21.0mm

The FP-1 has the same slot scheme.

Greg

And on edit: John Denver? John Denver? Modern long-hair rubbish music. I found my Deckel CD filed in with the Devo discs

Greg,

you must have been an early adopter of CD's if your Devo collection is CD and not vinyl...

cheers

Piers

Gotta love road trips.... 25 caffeine fuelled hours on the road, and the FP2LB is in it's new home..

We had to take the table off, it was too heavy for the forklift. Even without the table we just made it... In the manual it says 2100kg..

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The machine has been running with oil coolant... something that might be worth continuing..

The company selling the machines is Bell Dies Sydney Bell Group

They have been making dies for injection molding since the 1960's and have 3 or 4 big Makino CNC's doing the majority of the work.

A machine like the FP2LB would have been the ideal machine for making injection molding tooling prior to CNC, in recent times the FP2LB has been
doing roughing out prior to CNC.. They also had a nice looking FP3, with an original Deckel cabinet full of tooling. All of the tooling that would have been appropriate for the FP2LB
has been retained for them to use on the FP3.. pity.. But I know GQ would kill for one of those Deckel panzer proof tooling cabinets...

The machine was fully operational before being decommissioned, and all the levers and gear selection stuff feels nice and smooth, so fingers crossed we got a good one!

Regards
Ray

PS... As far as I can tell they have had the machine since new, the manuals have Sydney Tool and Die company stamped on the inside, which I think then later became Bell Dies,
so... that makes it a one owner machine, only driven by a little old German lady on sundays...

Any clue on how or why that casting was broken Ray, and how it may affect the operation (if at all)?

Pete

A crook slinging job perhaps chain marks?? Seen it and had it done to me before.Why i like to be there hands on to check hook ups

I had been thinking about you boys driving home with the truck laden. Now it's the sheds turn. Can't wait to hear and see more of this machine.

Ray, I'm real keen to find out more about the oil as coolant. Any particulars?

BT

ps. When I bought my Dumore TPG from Dave" Tissuescars" on Ebay he told me that it had come from Bell in Sydney. Same Bell.

Originally Posted by Pete F

Any clue on how or why that casting was broken Ray, and how it may affect the operation (if at all)?

Pete

It's the side of the circular T-slot for rotating the universal head, Won't affect operation. You could bolt the head direct to the vertical without the universal attachment if you wanted to. But it does allow a lot of flexibility in positioning the head and allows setup's like RC's auger boring in the other thread.

I see you've listed the F3 on PM's register, any pictures yet?

Regards
Ray