Fennec & Phil;
If I can find a photo of the Monarch "before" I will post it. I lost a lot of photos in a disk crash
These machines, made during World War II, all had a simple grey finish with no body filler to speed up production.
On the Oerlikon;
Yes, I have removed the gear quadrant and change gears, and can now select all the internal gear ranges (which are good enough for me).
Now I have to:
1) Make a pulley, it was removed and replaced with a flat belt style.
2) Find some kind of oil pump/reservoir for the headstock. My lathe has only two ports in the back, not three like the manual. So I suspect it had an
external electric pump. There is a note with it, saying it was removed. Why, I don't know!
3) Find some spindle cams for D1-5. They were removed, and only the meter 50 taper was used. What is meter 50?? Is it the same as an ISO 50 milling tool?
4) Replace the three control rods/handles. One for the clutch, one for the power feed, and one for leadscrew reverse.
Fennec, Yes, I would like measurements if you could. I hope they are standard metric keyed shafts?
5) Do something about the cross-feed. The acme screw has been replaced with what looks like 3/4-20 national extra fine, and it is coupled to a gear reduction. It is very stiff, and theer is no way to adjust/align the nut.
Also, I don't think it has a gear for cross feed on it! After the modification, it wasn't used.
6) make some sort of top for the compound. It has strange holes cut in the top, and no way to attach a tool post. Most lathes in US have a t-slot.
Enjoy lathe! - This will all take me a long time.
Interesting note: Even thhough the speed chart goes to 1800, my lathe has a roller bearing at front, not a plain broze bearing, so should be good for about 2800.
Fennec; I have no hope of finding new parts at all. Maybe somewhere in Europe there is a junker somewhere ( hope,hope,hope). I think there might be at most two lathes like this in US.
This was a lot easier with the monarch. They are common as dust here.
regards
Jon P.