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Cutting dovetails, how hard can it be...
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<blockquote data-quote="SidecarFlip" data-source="post: 635383" data-attributes="member: 39764"><p>Jinx...</p><p> </p><p>Every table and cross has gibs. They are in there. Probably not one piece anymore in as much as you've been dry sliding the table and cross dovetails for so long and it sounds like the previous owner did too. Per chance was the feed crank hard to turn? If it wasn't, the gibs are long gone.....</p><p> </p><p>Hope you didn't pay too much. Scrap price is about all she's worth. An alternative would be to find a lower in better shape (due diligence required) and pull the head and put it on the new (hopefully better) lower. That is, if the head is any good. The previous owner, if he fed you a line of dung about 'it don't need oiled' and the feed lines are missing (like Gary said, no easy replacement job in itself), then probably the head is shot as well. Those bearing packs like oil and plenty of it. I want to start the spindle and see a horizontal oil track across my shirt...every time. Thats why there is a large oil cup on the side (or should be........</p><p> </p><p>I buy used machines regularly. First thing I look at is the condition of the gearbox oil, then the ways under the headstock and how many buggered screw heads there are. Finally, I take my trusty LSS Last Word indicator and take a reading on the spindle or mounting flange while hand deflecting the spindle to see just how abused the machine was...... and they all are, some more than others. When it's time to ge a new one, the old 'girl' is run hard and put away dry.</p><p> </p><p>Used machinery is like going to a hay auction. Sellers tell you just what you want to hear because they know what you want.... a bargain. bargains don't mean squat if the bargain is a Sows Ear (to quote someone's signature line)......<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> </p><p>Best tool I ever bought for a hay auction is a Delmhorst Digital moisture meter and hay probe. Makes a liar out of the best huckster, just like the Last Word does.</p><p> </p><p>Couple years ago, an acquaintance bought a used Tree from a machinery dealer and asked me to haul it for him, which I did. I took one look at it b ut didn't say anything except 'are you sure'?? He was so geeked about the Tree, I wanted to break his bubble but thought better. We got it to his house, off loaded it and he hooked it up to a static (uch) converter and started it. The spindle sounded like an engine with piston slap. I left. It's probably at the scrap yard or he's posting somewhere asking for advice on how to 'fix' it.</p><p> </p><p>Some things aren't worth fixing. Discretion is the better part of not ****ing good money after bad.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SidecarFlip, post: 635383, member: 39764"] Jinx... Every table and cross has gibs. They are in there. Probably not one piece anymore in as much as you've been dry sliding the table and cross dovetails for so long and it sounds like the previous owner did too. Per chance was the feed crank hard to turn? If it wasn't, the gibs are long gone..... Hope you didn't pay too much. Scrap price is about all she's worth. An alternative would be to find a lower in better shape (due diligence required) and pull the head and put it on the new (hopefully better) lower. That is, if the head is any good. The previous owner, if he fed you a line of dung about 'it don't need oiled' and the feed lines are missing (like Gary said, no easy replacement job in itself), then probably the head is shot as well. Those bearing packs like oil and plenty of it. I want to start the spindle and see a horizontal oil track across my shirt...every time. Thats why there is a large oil cup on the side (or should be........ I buy used machines regularly. First thing I look at is the condition of the gearbox oil, then the ways under the headstock and how many buggered screw heads there are. Finally, I take my trusty LSS Last Word indicator and take a reading on the spindle or mounting flange while hand deflecting the spindle to see just how abused the machine was...... and they all are, some more than others. When it's time to ge a new one, the old 'girl' is run hard and put away dry. Used machinery is like going to a hay auction. Sellers tell you just what you want to hear because they know what you want.... a bargain. bargains don't mean squat if the bargain is a Sows Ear (to quote someone's signature line)......:) Best tool I ever bought for a hay auction is a Delmhorst Digital moisture meter and hay probe. Makes a liar out of the best huckster, just like the Last Word does. Couple years ago, an acquaintance bought a used Tree from a machinery dealer and asked me to haul it for him, which I did. I took one look at it b ut didn't say anything except 'are you sure'?? He was so geeked about the Tree, I wanted to break his bubble but thought better. We got it to his house, off loaded it and he hooked it up to a static (uch) converter and started it. The spindle sounded like an engine with piston slap. I left. It's probably at the scrap yard or he's posting somewhere asking for advice on how to 'fix' it. Some things aren't worth fixing. Discretion is the better part of not ****ing good money after bad....... [/QUOTE]
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