Radial Drill Universal Table: Reassembly & Installation 

The other trick is not to destroy your lead hammer that is not up to the job. Use a steel lump hammer and a piece of wood to tap it in, but that would need a moment's thought.

Very good idea! Why didn't the rest of us think of that?

Jim Beaver My dad made his this way in the 1960s... I still have it. He was a very clever fellow. it 'knocked' many many spinners on MG cars in a working shop environment and never fell apart.

Where we had molten aluminum on hand we use to pour bunches of aluminum hammers.

Definitely looks brand new and Keith seemed very pleased with the results.

To me, that eye bolt looked beefy enough and pretty well lined up with the general center-of-mass after it was all assembled. Do you really think there was enough side loading to be a significant concern? I've got some rigging experience and his setup didn't look too bad to me. Rarely is rigging perfect but I would have called that safe.

@@BigRalphSmith probably OK in this instance because he had it fully seated against the eye bolt shoulder. I'm trying to recall off-hand but I believe the rating for the eye bolt drops to something like 1/3 if loaded beyond 45 degrees (something like that). Had it been only partially installed (of the threads too long for the threaded hole) then you'd would've been limited by the area of the minor dia. of the thread and the stress riser of the sharp thread. The real danger is someone watching this video and not realizing there could've been a real problem. I've seen beefier eye bolts snap under side-loading that would've killed someone if they had been underneath. Swivels are expensive but it's hard to justify not getting one if you have an accident .

we rigged some big stuff with eye bolts in the shipyard especially big electric motors and I have seen stuff that would curl your hair but don't remember dropping anything

Ok, forged I-bolts are rated for 0 degree, straight loading, overhead lift. If you load at 45 degrees or 90 degrees, they are de-rated. Now, as long as the load does not exceed the de-rated amount, you are absolutely fine. Understand, there is a whole set of specs for overhead lifting and rigging. Here is a chart to help with the de-rating: twaylifting.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Chicago-Machine-Bolt.jpg A 5/8-11 I-bolt is rated at 4000 lbs vertical lift. Load it at 45 degrees, and it de-rates to 1000 lbs. vertical lift. Keith was fine for what he was doing, IMHO.

@@farmalltomf point taken. Did you consider the acceleration factor when it rolled unexpectedly and hit the end of the chain? The off-shore O&G industry uses a 2.5x amplification factor for dynamic loading such as this so if the 5/8 eye bolt you mentioned above didn't see more than 400# it would he considered safe. Nonetheless, I wasn't trying to start an argument. It was simply worth stating since not everyone who might be watching this video would know to watch out for side-loading an eye bolt regardless of whether or not we think Keith was safe in this particular instance. Bottom line is to consider all load cases and research an acceptable, safe, lifting solution and don't simply grab the first thing you find that happens to fit the threaded hole. That's all I was trying to say. Sorry to hijack your thread/video Keith.

By the way we had to make new ones every year because they were made out of wrought iron rod and every year the tip would be rusted off or broken and you can't afford to have even one single piece of steel wind up in the food someone paid for your walnuts..when somebody crunched into a piece of homemade black walnut fudge and broke their tooth..!!

It's an impressive industrial size drill and gives Keith great capabilities with that restored "right size" table for the Carlton. Now I'm eager to see Abom79 get his Carlton restored and using it. If Keith's former table is too low maybe Adam can have a taller pedestal cast by the fellow who did the broken corner piece. Or, maybe he'll luck out and find another one gathering dust in an old factory, etc.

E W as a fellow machine enthusiast and Aussie you may be able to help me. I am trying to find the little fasteners that hold name plates and other plates on machines. They are usually not screws just grommet type plugs that you bash in a hole to hold the plate. Bunnings doesn't have them. Any ideas?

Flying Pictures I will ask around for you Mate!! 👍😎👍🇦🇺🇺🇸

That was a strategic decision buying the gantry crane which gained valuable time needed to work on the other lathes. Does he still have the precision 10EE that needs a lot of TLC?

KenAustin Designs watch the previous video

A well executed braze job can actually be stronger than the gray iron usually used in big castings such as the one he fixed.