When I got it back to the shop and started trying to figure out its problems, I found this: Oh, yes, it was absolutely a victim of a massive failure in the apron lube system. I hope you will decide to join the scraping club, and if not post pictures anyway Good luck! They are always warped and the iron is of a quality that scrapes nice, when your done put it on ebay and double your money if you need the machine repaired sooner than later, I'd recommend you hire it out, rebuilding way surfaces requires hand fitting, so just getting the parts ground is not an option. Next get a few practice peices, I used to hit up antique stores for cheap old wood planes. The best tool you can own is "machine tool reconditioning" by Connelly, as well as rich kings video, Michael Morgan has a good book and video as well. A cheap granite surface plate can be had for less than $100 depending on the size, keep an eye on ebay for "machinist scrapers," anderson sells a nice product or make your own. I know exactly what you are saying when you say it bugs you to know it has that much wear, many of us have that disease! If your in no hurry for a repair and want to do it yourself, then scraping is an awesome skill to acquire, it does take time though, it's something you have to train your body to do, impossible to learn just by reading a book, you'll want a good mentor (there are an abundance here) and some basic tools. 0003 taper on the ring test (when leveling the lathe) but there is obvious wear where the dumbass PO didn't take care of the machine. I have attached a few pics and can get more if necessary. What are the experienced thoughts on the best repair techniques? So the options appear to be Turcite on the wear surfaces, scraping the gib and the apron, in order to get the tolerances back. I also priced a new cross slide and it is around $1600, but that still doesn't solve the wear on the saddle. I also bought a new gib that will need to be scraped to fit, which I am not sure I am ready for yet. There is an obvious tightness to the table as you adjust the tapered gib. 017 low in the middle of the cross slide table bearing surface. The PO used coolant and never appeared to do any maintenance, so there is massive wear on the two bearing surfaces. The biggest issue appears to be the tapered gib that is junk and heavy wear on both cross slide surfaces (apron and cross slide). (I bought new OE acme screw and brass nut with proper taper for backlash adjustment.) The PO built something out of some acme rod and a junk acme nut. I pulled the cross slide last week to replace the screw and nut with the proper parts. However my machine is probably a long way from that. Based on some of the features I have read about here, this machine has the potential to be a quality machine.
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