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Posted by Gunner Asch on June 24, 2008, 6:51 am
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:38:37 -0400, Joseph Gwinn
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>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:55:07 -0400, Joseph Gwinn
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>> >> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:09:27 -0400, Joseph Gwinn
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>> >> >Things were too clean. A bit of belt dressing on the belt and the noise
>> >> >all stopped. Now I can hear all the other noises.
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>> >> >The belt dressing is Gold Eagle 61498, bought from a local auto parts
>> >> >store.
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>> >> >Joe Gwinn
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>> >> Your welcome
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>> >> <G>
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>> >> Gunner
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>> >Thanks. And I do wish that the prior owners of this lathe had known at
>> >least one machine-tool tech. Although it has been educational.
>> >
>> >Joe Gwinn
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>> Now you are starting to become one. Makes the next one easier to
>> work on, now that you have started training your brain as to how
>> things work..but WHY they work..or dont....the priniples all being
>> alike
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>All true, at least I hope so.
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>But I think it would have been more cost-effective and time-effective if
>I had gotten much cleaner machine from an expensive dealer. I've got to
>have spent the difference already, and there are still things to fix.
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>Like the hydraulics - can't quite go to the slowest speed on the reeves
>drive. Clausing says to take the upper hydraulic cylinder (at the speed
>control wheel) apart and redo the seals, and I expect that they are
>right.
IRRC...they are simple O rings. Its easy to pull apart and check. And
to bleed after you put it back together.
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>On the other hand, even the nice machine from the nice dealer probably
>will require something. But still.
Yes, they often do.
I brokered a nice machine for a client a while back, 16x42 Mori Seiki
Dro and everything, steady, etc etc
All the dials were in metric. and the metric/english button was busted
on the DRO.
$5000
We didnt find out till AFTER it was on the shop floor.
Shrug
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>Joe Gwinn
Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional,
illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an
unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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