This fine machine deserves to have all it's original parts and the long elusive handle has been found! I still need to find 2 more for Axelson 16" lathes so the search for them goes on...
Comparing a vintage Axelson, or American Pacemaker, or Monarch to today’s Precision Matthews and Lion lathes: the old timers have that solid machinery presence. The new ones are mostly sheet metal (with great electronic.controls and DROs standard, but they have an appliance look to them. May as well be a dishwasher or refrigerator..
Olá amigo Steve,saudações daqui do Brasil!!! Que maravilha de torno!!!Eu gostei do modelo de construção!!! Aguardo pela solução de mais este trabalho,e boa sorte sempre!!!
Acme Iron Works was founded by C. F. Axelson and G. A. Axelson in the early to mid 1890s. Within a few years the name changed to Axelson Machine Co. Sometime between 1928 and 1936 the name was changed again to the Axelson Manufacturing Co. In 1954, Axelson was purchased by U. S. Industries (USI) Clearing Division. Axelson bought by U.S. Industries 1954....a Los Angeles Conglomerate that .Manufactured Electric Motors fron 1915 to 1962 This maker of AC induction motors became a conglomerate, and around 2004 changed its name to Jacuzzi Brands, Inc.
Take the gears off the shaft and the hex adapter, get a suitable 6 point socket, maybe a long impact socket, and make the od a good fit on the bush/sleeve and to fit the gear, if you use a long series socket you may be able to just cut the square drive off the socket, saving some effort. And Robert’s your father’s brother, if you’re lucky. Take care.
I have found a hex shaft coupler that should fit the bill.. Might have to enlarge the bore a little from the 1 1/8 for clearance but as they are not hardened should be easier than making something from scratch...
Hmmm .... I'm a printer & not a machinist. That problem is very similar to a printing press the boss asked me to finish a job on where the last guy just walked away from. It had almost the exact same fault so I drew up plans to manufacture a ¾" thick circular block that would fit the hex shaft as if it was simply cut in half. What I had was a two piece collar around the hex shaft but it would slide. A couple of cap bolts held it together. It had three bolt holes in each half so that I could drill into the back of the gear which I then threaded to bolt everything together. Revisiting the place 5 years later I found the press wasn't being used anymore but there was a specialist job that only it could do so they kept it. Naturally I took a look and my makeshift repair was still in place. I'll bet you a beer .... Will the removal of the set screws be more difficult than to bodgy up a repair like I did?
Why is it no matter how big your lathe turns its always a little bit too small for the job you need it for. Brian was right you should of bought the 25 is what youll see in your sleep from now on and if not Don will be sure to remind you. Makes me smile just imagining your response to his teasing.
It's so sad to see the future of manual machining go-to waste when shops close down. CNC has its place but so does manual work. In my opinion, it would take longer to do a one off part on a cnc with its initial programming than to do it on a manual mill or lathe.
lathe jobs tend to be fairly simple, and not that hard to program, especially if you have a conversational system, or can generate a bunch of canned cycles from a program that can glue a bunch of standard operations together. I'm planning on making such a program to quickly generate lathe programs without cad/cam using a plugin that's available for LinuxCNC, but converting it to a standalone app that doesn't require LinuxCNC so it can be used with any cnc lathe.
It seems to me, if it is such a safety need, you would have made a reasonable fax sniminee so you wouldn't have to run 5 ft to shut it off good job as allways 73 dan
Other than having finally finding and getting an original (which is always fun), is there a reason you could not have just made one? ie is there something special on the original other than it being original that a user created one would not be as good?
If you can get it off, and you don't have the right broach ... what would I do? Bore it, pin a sleeve in it, and "broach" a new hex in it with a shaper. But I am definitely not a machinist, so there's probably a better way! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦
I have found a hex shaft coupler that should fit the bill.. Might have to enlarge the bore a little from the 1 1/8 for clearance but as they are not hardened should be easier than making
Just bought two new cameras that will me to allow for recording at the same level and not much editing of sound... took all the money this poor channel brings in in a year but I think it will help with the sound...
Does the shaft the handle mounts on slide out of the gear, allowing the handle gear to drop out. I saw broken teeth. How is dons shaper coming. A wide 2 angle tool might be able to broach out the hex if it's mounted in an indexer. I think abom or Steve summers mounted a boring bar on his shaper
I think it does... I didn't see any broken gears just pulled out of the way.... Shaper is waiting on the gib for the head... 14 inch grinder is being balanced to make the gib...
