OK, first thing I have to say is WOW! This is so much more machine than anything I have owned before. I kind of bought it on a whim so have been playing catch up trying to learn as much as possible about these machines. My typical M.O. is to research a purchase to death till I know exactly what I am looking for and wait until the right deal comes along. This one kind of fell in my lap and it was immediately obvious that it was a good deal without doing any research.
Looks like a 1977 as long as the control box was built at the same time as the machine.
This is how it looked when I got it. Those wheels are a class act. Notice the bent supports making it pretty much impossible to roll it anywhere. Same with the attachments. All piled on a "rolling" platform, one wheel of which had a plastic bag so wrapped around it that I had to take the wheel apart to remove it. The wheel still doesn't roll as it has a flat spot from being slid around for who knows how long. Look closely and you will see a fine feed drill attachment being bent and the x axis DRO with the read head flopping around tossed in with everything else.
At this point I've done a lot of cleaning and have it under power. I'm starting to go through the electrics and attachments and figure things out. If anybody can shed some light on the following questions it would be much appreciated.
First up, horizontal head and arbor. I'm assuming this arbor is too long for my machine. It has the SK40 taper so I think it is made by Deckel. Maybe for an FP2? Ideally I'd like to trade it straight across for one that fits my FP1.
Next is the right angle attachment that came with the mill, model 2034. It has an ID of 80mm. My vertical head has an OD of 70mm. It seems that this is meant to fit a "New Style" FP1. Here again I would love to trade the right angle head for one that fits my machine but barring that I may try and make a split shim to fill the gap.
Here is a fun one. What is wrong with this picture?
Yep, I know. It's an FP2 riser used to mount a precision boring head to an FP1. It doesn't work for two reasons that I am aware of. One is that the gear ratio is 2:1 on this head whereas the FP1 riser would be 1:1. The other is that the FP1 uses 14.5 PA gears whereas this has 20 PA gearing (so I have read, haven't confirmed that). I know that FP1 riser blocks are rare as hens teeth and the chances of anyone wanting to trade risers is slim. The thing is the dovetails fit fine and the gears mesh fine so it seems to me that all I have to do is make two or three 26 tooth 14.5 PA gears to replace the ones in the riser and I will have a cosmetically challenged but perfectly functional riser. Anything wrong with this reasoning?
Lastly the bellows need replacing for the X and Y ways. McMaster Carr has some that seem like they would work for the vertical ways but they want to sell them by the foot and I need 14 inches. I also see them on German EBay but they look a little different with snaps on the top where mine has a metal frame which screws to the way stop. Lastly there is Gortite, now Dynatect. Haven't contacted them yet but it is on my ToDo list. Does anyone have experience using any of these?
That's it for now, I'm just starting to work on the electrics. I''ll save that for another post other than to say that this is about the coolest transformer I've ever seen.
TeryK