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JOHN · Guest

Hello,

I need some one who can help me in identifying a lathe I have.
I can see on the lathe Tail Side the marking on the bed as
A.E / 279 / REV.
There is no other product information in this lathe. It is been used in
my shop from 1960.The center gap is about 8 feet & this was a "Used
Lathe "when it was bought in 1960's. This is not been much used,
but works pretty well & need some rebuild.
Now I am planning to rebuild this lathe & want to have this more
accurate machine.
So I thought to start this from knowing the history of the machine and
planning to rebuild from the Head Stock, Tail Stock, and Carriage. Also
the Lathe Bed, Gear wheels and screw rods are also in the list I am
planning to rebuild.
If you have any tracking mechanism for this particular task that I can
use and if any one let me know your past experience in rebuilding a
Lathe that would help me in rebuilding this Lathe much fast and easy.

Thanks,
JOHN

I have attached the Link for this Lathe.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m256/johnudt/LatheFull.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m256/johnudt/lathemarking.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m256/johnudt/LatheH-F.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m256/johnudt/LatheH.jpg

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m256/johnudt/LatheC.jpg

daniel peterman · Guest

It looks like a very clean lathe in that group of photos, What is wrong
with it?
Appears similar to a SouthBend I had once. Try www.lathes.co.uk for
pictures of just about every machine tool ever made.

JOHN · Guest

Hi Daniel ,

Thanks for your reply & the help to get me some inputs..

In the Lathe headstock I had found some broken welded teeth on the bull
gear . When the Clutch lever for the back Gear is used to engage, the
Vibration of broken Bull Gear cause the back Gear Clutch lever to get
disengaged .This also makes very loud noise.
The Tail stock spindle have wear & tear due to which when drill bits
are used, it get along with the metal in teh chuck & rotates .This
needs some rework like re-bore & fixing a sleeve in the spindle.

On the Lathe saddle , the bottom side has worn out the.The V groove on
the underside of the saddle that rides along the inverted V-groove also
had some wear .

How to get re-grounded to original shape?

The carriage that moves along the ways by means of a rack and pinion
drive is not very smooth & it is tight some time to move the carriage
along the ways.

The Tool post & cross slide taper Keys are been re built, but it is
tight so need to have this hand scrapped.

The lath Bed is clean; I did some Hand Scrapping some time back.

The half nut assembly Clutch Falls down, when the carriage is moved
along the ways. This half nut assembly got it re made .

Please advice me this .. I f I need to do any other changes ?

Regards
JOHN

daniel peterman · Guest

That lathe sounds pretty worn out. You may just have to put up with
some of the worst areas or get into some really expensive grinding done
by an outside shop.
There is a product called Moglice which is a metal filled epoxy that may
fill in some low points. I believe you lap it to fit against the mating
part.
Something I have never seen mentioned in machine tool restoration, that
was once common for valve guides on engines is knurling. I don't know if
you could do it successfully on the sliding parts of a lathe or mill but
it seems that if you had the right tool you may be able to raise certain
areas of metal by striking them with a toothed tool. I would test this
on something before you just whack at the lathe saddle with a punch.