R9000
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2022
Hi all,
I've browsed this forum for a while but just signed up today, this is my first post. So I recently bought an MH 700 "Toolroom" machine, made in the 70s I think. It's a beast, works mostly fine but needs some real TLC for sure. It's had three coats of paint, the original green, blue on top, then white clumsily slapped on top of that. I really like the white though - at some point I'll repaint it properly and I think I'll keep that look. What scared me a little bit was the fact that when I finally wiped away the puddle of oil in the tool trays, the bottom of the tray was still green - meaning some of that dirt and oil was probably 40+ years old.
Anyway, speaking of oil I have a few questions. Please bear in mind I'm not a professional machinist, my only other machine tool is a Boxford Model C. So some of these questions might be very, uh, naive.
-First the oiler itself. I'm wondering what oil to use. There's a plate above it that says "10-14°E / 50°C". Now don't get me wrong, I love to measure things in Degrees Elcius as much as the next guy, but I don't know what this means when it comes to oil. I have some pretty generic way oil that I use for my lathe, but is that adequate?
-Secondly, the machine seems to have two oil baths for the gearboxes. From the looks of the little oil window, it's pretty parched in the feed gearbox. So what do I put in there? Same stuff for the spindle? There doesn't seem to be an oil window for that.
-Thirdly, there's a switch on the top-left of the panel and I have no idea what it does. I can't seem to post images yet, but it looks like some sort of... clutch or something? Like a circle with some sort of brake being moved up against it or away from it. Any ideas? I'll post the image once I'm able.
Now you might be asking why I don't just get a manual. Well, it came with virtually zero documentation, Lathes.co.uk doesn't have a manual for this exact model, and DMG Mori came back to me after about three weeks of "searching" with... nothing at all, nice though they were. Everything on the machine so far I've had to figure out myself. So if anyone has access to MH 700 documentation (the angular version, NOT the old rounded version) I'd be forever in your debt if you could share it with me. There was another post on this forum where someone claimed to have documents for an MH 700, but the links now make you ask for Google Drive permissions, so that's a lost cause too.
Any and all nuggets of wisdom greatly appreciated. Thanks all.
I've browsed this forum for a while but just signed up today, this is my first post. So I recently bought an MH 700 "Toolroom" machine, made in the 70s I think. It's a beast, works mostly fine but needs some real TLC for sure. It's had three coats of paint, the original green, blue on top, then white clumsily slapped on top of that. I really like the white though - at some point I'll repaint it properly and I think I'll keep that look. What scared me a little bit was the fact that when I finally wiped away the puddle of oil in the tool trays, the bottom of the tray was still green - meaning some of that dirt and oil was probably 40+ years old.
Anyway, speaking of oil I have a few questions. Please bear in mind I'm not a professional machinist, my only other machine tool is a Boxford Model C. So some of these questions might be very, uh, naive.
-First the oiler itself. I'm wondering what oil to use. There's a plate above it that says "10-14°E / 50°C". Now don't get me wrong, I love to measure things in Degrees Elcius as much as the next guy, but I don't know what this means when it comes to oil. I have some pretty generic way oil that I use for my lathe, but is that adequate?
-Secondly, the machine seems to have two oil baths for the gearboxes. From the looks of the little oil window, it's pretty parched in the feed gearbox. So what do I put in there? Same stuff for the spindle? There doesn't seem to be an oil window for that.
-Thirdly, there's a switch on the top-left of the panel and I have no idea what it does. I can't seem to post images yet, but it looks like some sort of... clutch or something? Like a circle with some sort of brake being moved up against it or away from it. Any ideas? I'll post the image once I'm able.
Now you might be asking why I don't just get a manual. Well, it came with virtually zero documentation, Lathes.co.uk doesn't have a manual for this exact model, and DMG Mori came back to me after about three weeks of "searching" with... nothing at all, nice though they were. Everything on the machine so far I've had to figure out myself. So if anyone has access to MH 700 documentation (the angular version, NOT the old rounded version) I'd be forever in your debt if you could share it with me. There was another post on this forum where someone claimed to have documents for an MH 700, but the links now make you ask for Google Drive permissions, so that's a lost cause too.
Any and all nuggets of wisdom greatly appreciated. Thanks all.