Article on lathe compound repair/upgrade

[gamachinist]

Hi all.I'm trying to find an article from either HSM or MW/PIM about a damaged t slot that someone repaired on a lathe compound.I've tried the search engine here but didn't come up with any results.My back issues are in too many different boxes from tidying up and I can't find but a few at the moment.I think the article was about removing the t slot and making a multi slot plate to replace it.Does anyone else recall this?Thanks,Robert.

[3jaw]

Robert,

I think I remember the article but I can't remember which issue of HSM it was in. I do know that he milled off the top lips of the t-slot and drilled and tapped two holes on each side so he could mount plates that would replace the milled-off portions.

Clear as mud, huh?

Hope this helps.

Greg

[gamachinist]

Thanks Greg.At least now I know I didn't imagine the whole thing.I can search now knowing it does exist.Of course if I had thought it up I could have sent it in and gotten paid for it!Robert.

[3jaw]

Robert,

I notice in your profile that you are an automotive machinist. I started out as an automotive machinist fresh out of high school vo-tech. I stayed in it for 4 years and it was one of my favorite jobs. Imagine an 18 year old kid getting to build engines the right way!!!!!

What kind of equipment does your shop have?

Greg

[gamachinist]

Good thing you got smart and went into something that pays more!On to equipment:
Zanrosso Crackshaft grinder-82"capacity
Stewart Warner analog balancer
Peterson TCM25 valve seat and guide machine
Souix 680 valve refacer
Souix valve seat grinding equipment
American Automotive head and block "mill"
Crappy head pressure tester
Sunnen LBA pin and rod hone with AG 300 gauge and rod,pin,and king pin mandrels
Sunnen "dog house" rod cap cutter
American Automotive Flywheel grinder
Kwik Way FN boring bar on Kwik way stand(plate type)
Van Norman 944 boring bar on small engine stand
Shelby block honing machine that I use manualy because the air system quit.It never worked that well anyway.
Stack of torque plates for blocks
AXE spray cabinet with aluminum safe cleaner
Old Old soak vat for cast iron and sheet metal etc.
Scat Blast glass bead cabinet
Atlas/Bear(not the same as the lathes)brake drum and rotor lathes
30 ton pick up dealer shop press
OTC piston press fixture
LeBlond 13x24 Regal lathe
Old Atlas 10x36 lathe
Old Air Compressor with no name
Stuff that needs fixing:
Lodge and Shippley 16x36 lathe
Van Norman 444 flywheel grinder
Bridgeport Series I CNC vertical mill
Tobin-Arp pin and piston boring machine
Lempco 855 head grinder
Rotunda brake drum lathe for large drums
Curtis Air Compressor
Ing Rand Compressor bought for motor and control for above
Things that eat:
Sasha,Prissy,Cassie,and Bandit the dogs
Sticky the cat and Mousetrap the cat (if he ever comes home from tomcatting he'll go to the things that need fixing catagory)
Sorry this got so long but I had a chance to talk so I did!
Robert.

[G.A. Ewen]

Hello Robert,
Check out the photo on page 34 of the Feb/Mar issue of Machinist's Workshop. (2002) If that is the lathe that you are referring to it belongs to Marsh Collins. Maybe if you do a search on his articals you will find the one that you are looking for. Just an idea.
George.

[This message has been edited by G.A. Ewen (edited 05-15-2003).]

[gamachinist]

Thanks George.I'll have to find the issue where ever I put it.The search didn't turn it up under his name but it might be too recent to be in the archive.At least I've got a date to look for now.
Robert.

[3jaw]

Weeelllllll, I'm not exactly getting rich by teaching, either!

Our equipment consisted of:
60" Storm Vulcan crankshaft grinder
Stuhr grinding wheel balancing stand
Storm Vulcan crankshaft straightening press
Rottler boring machine
Rottler power hone
Storm Vulcan head and block surface grinder
Tobin Arp seat and guide machine
Tobin Arp valve grinder
Tobin Arp flywheel grinder
Sioux seat grinder
Sunnen pin and rod hone with AG 300 gage
Sunnen cap grinder
Sunnen piston pin press
Sunnen rod heater
Storm Vulcan spray wash cabinet
Bayco oven
Tobin Arp glass bead cabinet
NAPA compressor
Yale pneumatic hoist
Old junk Buffalo lathe

This has been a nice trip down memory lane!

Greg

[G.A. Ewen]

I'm back, what your looking for might be found in Home Shop Machinist, Jul/Aug, 2001 in an artical called "Overhaul of the Old Lady". I subscribe to MWS and my friend Andy Bradette subscribes to HSM, he is out of town right now so I can't check his library to be sure. We trade magazines back and forth as they come in. An arrangment that works very well for both of us.

[gamachinist]

Thanks George! I belive that is what I was thinking about.I passed on the information to the guy on Chaski's BB with your name too.I found my copy of the M W you refered me to but I can find everything around the HSM issue but that one.I looked it up using the search feature here(finally figured it out) and gave him that info too.Maybe he can find a copy to look at.In the meantime,I need to locate mine and put it with the rest.
Robert.