This has to stop! More machines followed me home.

[measuretwice]

The old iron disease has got me in a death grip.  I just can't go past a nice old machine and leave well enough alone.  Anyway, great fun and lots of new projects added to the list to spruce these up.   I was out of the house at 5:30 last weekend on a mission, got a Levin lathe, Hauser pivot polisher and a baby Jones Shipman cylindrical grinder.   Some need a bit of work and cleaning, but most of the major bits are there.  

Snagged a nice 10mm Levin, don't really need another lathe, but this thing was so nicely accessorized I couldn't pass it up.  Two Variable speed Levin drives, spindle and accessories, coolant, collect closer, tons of collets, 4 jaw, 3 jaw, faceplate, steady, milling attachment, turret tailstock, 2nd op double crosslide and the pièce de résistance, the drilling tailstock.  This has its own drive and fine adjustment in two planes so you can perfectly centre it to the lathe's spindle.  Its also got the threading attachment but no gears.  The power pack is mess, as is the motor.  Insulation in and out of the motor has crumbled, something shorted.  I think I will scrap it and use a new 3Pp motor and vfd, but bury the vfd in the OEM control and use all the OEM controls so it look correct.

Next is a Hauser  pivot burnisher.   You put a clock or watch wheel and shaft (takes 8mm collets), it spins it in collet at one end and jacot at the other and floods with with oil while you bring down a spinning carbide wheel to burnish the pivot (bearing journal).  There's a very precise depth stop on the carbide wheel so you can control diameter.  With an inverter and motor connected as delta this should be easy to get running

King of the cool is the grinder.  This is a Jones Shipman 520, a table top cylindrical grinder.  Beautifully made piece, cross feed is graduated in tenths.  It came with internal and external quils and holders, both centres and the workhead as well as an adapter so it'll take 8mm collets.  It has flood and both the regular and internal attachments.  The external is mounted and internal is on the bench will the quill is on the wood box.  There's a busted oil cup I have to make parts for and figure the drive

There is a huge overhead drive for this shown in my driveway, I can barely lift it.  The drive is upside down, not shown are the uprights the drive mounts on so it sort of hovers over the machine.  The idea is the motor is separated from the grinder and you can spin both the spindle and work.  Not sure what I'll do here, store the drive and hook up something modern - fractional ho 3p with vfd and small countershaft (grinding spindle and work get drive in opposite directions)  Last photo is it sitting on top of my horizontal mill to show how small it is - a cylindrical grinder you can pick up and carry!

Edited August 11, 2019 by measuretwice

[yankeedog]

There are worse diseases.My question is of course, are they housebroken?

[measuretwice]

only thing broken is my wallet and my back

Edited August 11, 2019 by measuretwice