Richard King
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2005
- Location
- Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Hello everyone. I wrote this article for my Facebook forum today. I thought I would share it as it's a good learning experience that can be used on other machines. If anyone cares to join my private forum on facebook, it's under my company name. "King-Way Scraping Consultants" we have over 800 members and we only talk about rebuilding and scraping. No nonsense allowed. Here is what I posted there today: Yesterday I wrote about how to scrape double V and not a V and flat way.
Years ago I used to teach the apprentices at Eastern Repair and Fabrication in Christiansburg VA. One day I got a call from them and they had a real issue with a Cinc. Monoset Tool and Cutter Grinder another rebuilder had rebuilt for a new customer.
I flew down and took a look. The other rebuilder had milled the ways. Monosets are usually totally worn out when the T&C company gets them rebuilt, so I am assuming the other rebuilder saw the wear and said we have to mill these ways. Never indicated the ways in or were clueless how to machine.
Anyway when I got there and started to check it out, Roger at Eastern said when it was assembled with the gibs tight the feed screws were so tight you couldn't move the slides.
The other rebuilder also milled those clearance surfaces that I eluded too in the double V thread. So they were screwed and had no way to align from those original clearance surfaces.
I sat there being a detective trying to figure out what to do??? Then it dawned on me. The feed screws! The feed screws brackets and casting holes were bored at the factory and were original. I had them make some test bars we installed where the feed screws went and then we set the slides on a mill, indicated the top and sides of the test bars and milled the ways, tops, clearance surfaces and dovetails. The ways had been milled so much we had to glue on Rulon 142 (turcite) to compensate.
So there are a lot of ways you new Detectives can rebuild things. Rich
Years ago I used to teach the apprentices at Eastern Repair and Fabrication in Christiansburg VA. One day I got a call from them and they had a real issue with a Cinc. Monoset Tool and Cutter Grinder another rebuilder had rebuilt for a new customer.
I flew down and took a look. The other rebuilder had milled the ways. Monosets are usually totally worn out when the T&C company gets them rebuilt, so I am assuming the other rebuilder saw the wear and said we have to mill these ways. Never indicated the ways in or were clueless how to machine.
Anyway when I got there and started to check it out, Roger at Eastern said when it was assembled with the gibs tight the feed screws were so tight you couldn't move the slides.
The other rebuilder also milled those clearance surfaces that I eluded too in the double V thread. So they were screwed and had no way to align from those original clearance surfaces.
I sat there being a detective trying to figure out what to do??? Then it dawned on me. The feed screws! The feed screws brackets and casting holes were bored at the factory and were original. I had them make some test bars we installed where the feed screws went and then we set the slides on a mill, indicated the top and sides of the test bars and milled the ways, tops, clearance surfaces and dovetails. The ways had been milled so much we had to glue on Rulon 142 (turcite) to compensate.
So there are a lot of ways you new Detectives can rebuild things. Rich