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Thread: Wickman OPG Optical Grinder.
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20th November 2013, 09:50 PM #61GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Gentlemen,
I've been looking at the pictures again. I'm starting to think it may just be a pattern left in the "oil" when to flat ways were lifted apart.
I'm going as fast as I can Ewan
Some pretty fine work(well at leat by my standard lol)
Got the first layer back on, only 7 more to go.
Stuart
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21st November 2013, 05:14 PM #62GOLD MEMBER
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So do I oil the ways and leadscrews or assume the guy that owned it last knew what he was doing and use grease?
Given the amount of work its going to get I'm thinking oil. Way oil off the lathe is just going to have to do I think.
It uses halfnut.
Stuart
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21st November 2013, 05:43 PM #63SENIOR MEMBER
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Go with oil Stu.
I was up your end of town this morning. I was in Merrindale Drive. I nearly rang.
Phil.
P.S Master craftsman that did that scraping.
Thats ole school English. The half moons aren't flaked. They roll the blade through the high spot, leaving that pattern.
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21st November 2013, 07:27 PM #64GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Phil,
Thanks, oil it is.
lol small word, SWMBO's brother is(was) at a place on Merrindale Dr with his excavator. Ring away.
Stuart
p.s. Hey how did you know it wasnt my scapping? , I've tried that half moon scaping without much success. Maybe another 100 hours or so and it will come.
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21st November 2013, 09:17 PM #65GOLD MEMBER
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Two more layers. Only 5 to go(6 if you count the wheel slide).
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22nd November 2013, 06:03 PM #66GOLD MEMBER
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Three more.
Things are going to slow down a little now. I have to put the last three on in one hit and I'm not even sure how to get the last two apart lol
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22nd November 2013, 09:26 PM #67GOLD MEMBER
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I win!..... Finally
Layers 8 and 9
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22nd November 2013, 10:12 PM #68SENIOR MEMBER
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Man that grease is ugly. And it looks like a bit of moly thrown into the mix.
Going days back to that scraping. I knew a bloke years back, Colin Holmes. Expat pom, did his time with one of the famous English machine builders, who's name escapes me at the moment. He was the head maintenace guy at Diecraft, the tupperware tooling company, in Reservoir
First time I meet him, I ended up in the maintenance workshop, He pulled out a hand scraper, then danced it around his bench, forward, backward, aroung the hole, laying down that patten. He could have done it blindfolded.
He lived out Kinglake way, he was killed in a head on accident 5 - 6 years ago. Not his fault, over taking car comming the other way, on his way to work one morning.
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22nd November 2013, 10:41 PM #69Philomath in training
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I hope there is a special section in hell for people who put grease into places that should be oiled on machines. The noises in my head got too much for me (https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/wh...y-head-178623/) and now I've started to strip it down. I was talking to the SKF rep today, did a rough sketch, explained it was packed with grease and he kept muttering that it was crazy and it should have oil running in it. After talking to him I think he is right. I keep finding smooth bores with suspicious round numbers for diameters but some bugger has pulled out half the oil seals and just packed it with grease. At least the packing kept the P6 bearings lubed but...
Michael
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23rd November 2013, 09:18 AM #70GOLD MEMBER
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Yes its a bit of a mess. I'm kicking myself for not finishing off my larger parts washer(ex twin tub), using a normal sink is painful. Still almost there. There is some shim behind the gib on the slide so someone has been here before me. So I might get to practice my scrapping. Feels like it needs some new bearings in the belt pulleys but other than that there has been 1 bolt(in a set of four) that is short as the hole has been messed up somehow. Havent opened the gearbox yet.
Stuart
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23rd November 2013, 04:48 PM #71GOLD MEMBER
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Well the gearbox is open. Looks pretty good to me except for one washer.......... But then what do I know about gearboxes... not much. Anyone got a clever way of checking the bearings in the box?
Stuart
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26th November 2013, 08:13 PM #72GOLD MEMBER
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Well I finally made a crystal remover. Polished up the crystal, came up pretty well. If you can see little black dots, they are in the crystal? I assume they have been there since they were made or is the breaking down into oil again? lol
Stuart
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26th November 2013, 11:38 PM #73.
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Hold on!. A photo of the crystal remover would be in order. The lefty looks close to box fresh Stu. Nice work.
BT
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27th November 2013, 12:20 AM #74SENIOR MEMBER
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Why do I get a vision / version of a "Bong" and a few O-rings, mixed in with visions of Stu. Surely you can suck a crystal clean right out.
Stu: The gentelman that moved that grinder, he rang the other day. I didn't speak to him, he left a message. He's found other things for that grinder. 50 / 50 bet its you or R.C, but one of you have ancillaries, that belong to your machine/s.
I'll call him in the morning.
Regards Phil.
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27th November 2013, 12:23 AM #75.
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I think I can smell adrenaline from over here.