It will go in the space between the parts room door, and the doorway to the office. Checked it out yesterday and it will fit great!

 

Ousting the popcorn machine, darn.

 

Nope! Just moving it to it's own shelf in the office!

 

Hey Don in the 2nd Post, the First picture what is it?

 

That's the vertical adapter. Changes it from a horizontal mill to a vertical mill.

Started taking it apart yesterday after the crap with the old renter stopped work on the rental house. Got it about half torn apart and the parts in the hot tank. I did find a couple screwed up bevel gears under the table. I wil have to weld them up and grind/file new teeth on them. Pain in the butt, but with a 100 year old mill, I expected some problems, and I can fix it...

Here are some more pics of the teardown. The next to the last pic is the two small bevel gears that will have to be fixed, and the last pic is the huge shaft in the lathe ready to be polished. All the parts we took off yesterday are in the hot tank now!

 

Man that sucks about the gears, have you got the shaft in the lathe to check for true, or just for cleaning?

 

Not a big deal on the gears. I can fix them. The shaft is in the lathe just to clean it up.

 

That motor on top most have weighed a ton, how did you get it down?

 

Really chewed those gears up!

 

Those are the gears for the main bed (X axis) power feed. The Y and Z axis drives still work. I'll weld up the gear face and use the die grinder and file to repair the broken teeth. I've done it before. Not a "nice" job to do but with a little time I can get them working again.

 

Thats awesome that you have the vertical adapter for the mill, best of both worlds.

 

I never thought gears could be repaired, BUT I had a customer with torn up diff ring & pinion gears & I don't have to tell you they're curved, I had a guy/machinist repair them, I put'em back in & that plow truck is still on the road....... I'm a believer ... plus I have faith in you Don

 

Well thank you and good evening Gerry! I spent years doing stuff like this to keep farms and mines running. Like I said, not a fun job, but one i'm not afraid to do...

I might even post some pics of the process. I'll heat treat the gears when I have the new teeth where I want them. There is enough remaining teeth to make a metal pattern that I'll use to get the shape right. Tedious, but doable!

 

You nailed it, time consuming but doable, good thing you have nothing else to do huh...sarc

 

Took both the gearboxes off and apart today. All the gears, shafts, and bearings are in beautiful shape! Wish I could find some paperwork on this thing, them maybe I could figure out how to take the main table off.......