New to me Hendey 14 x 30

I have one identical to yours but with a 108" bed, great lathe but soft ways and always worn out in the first 10 inches from the headstock. Mine is .020 low at the headstock and perfect from 60-108", mine weighs in at 8,000 lbs, 5HP GE 1200 RPM motor, you cannot overload that one. I would recommend cleaning the gear box and replacing the pipecleaners in the oil holes drilled to lube it properly. Mine is a 1941 and sold to the Hudson motor car company, I was going to rebuild mine 25 year ago and all the long work was disappearing so I stopped working on it, now it sits taking up space and to heavy for me to move now. Have fun getting yours ready for serious chip making.
I'm thinking this one is probably 41 or 42. It has the war badge. I wanted to post the serial number on PM but can't remember my password for the site. Maybe I can do a search for hendey man. I imagine he has a website.
 
I had the whole day to work on my projects in the shop today. I decided to attack the apron on the hendey. The machine had a coolant pump on it so I was concerned about what I was going to find when I got the apron opened up. As usual I didn't have to worry about oil flooding out of it when I split the cases. The good news is, there doesn't seem to be any coolant damage. The pic I'm including shows the back half of the apron. The oil pump is located right below where all of the sludge is. I got everything apart and cleaned up. I soaked the oil pump assembly all day. I put it back together,20170528_084936.jpg put some oil in it, pressed the plunger and was rewarded with a shot of oil in my hair. Success!

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Don't you know the greaser look is out. Lol , looks like she's in pretty good shape , we 'll see when you get her going. Nice job loading and unloading . No fun but be proud you can do it. Good luck.
 
Well, you can really open a can of worms when you start working on these machines. Seeing as how as I had the apron out of the way and I needed to remove the feed clutch rod to repair the handle, I figured I might as well remove the main clutch rod and paint the side of the bed and all of the brackets holding the two rods and the lead screw. I got it cleaned up and first coated. I told myself going into this that I was just going to clean and lube it so I put it through it paces and decide if it was a keeper before I put any major time into it....oh well

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I think many of us fall victim to the same phenomenon. Nice job so far. Mike
 
Here's one of the parts that needed repair. The hendey has a clutch mounted on the bottom of the apron that controls the lead/feed screw. Should be nice for threading. You can run forward to cut, hit neutral at the end of the cut, back your tool out, reverse back to the starting point, hit neutral again, zero the cross feed, advance the compound and hit forward. Whew.....that sounds like a lot of work. LOL. Anyway, the handle was broken. Not only that but I forgot it when I picked up the lathe so I had to go back and get it. That worked out great because I was given a lot more stuff, but that's another story. So here's the pics of the fix. I v'd it out a little and brazed it. Should be good for another 70 years.

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I'm thinking this one is probably 41 or 42. It has the war badge. I wanted to post the serial number on PM but can't remember my password for the site. Maybe I can do a search for hendey man. I imagine he has a website.
I have a serial number book for all US made machine tools; give me the serial number and I will look it up; send to york@napanet.net
 
Here's one of the parts that needed repair. The hendey has a clutch mounted on the bottom of the apron that controls the lead/feed screw. Should be nice for threading. You can run forward to cut, hit neutral at the end of the cut, back your tool out, reverse back to the starting point, hit neutral again, zero the cross feed, advance the compound and hit forward. Whew.....that sounds like a lot of work. LOL. Anyway, the handle was broken. Not only that but I forgot it when I picked up the lathe so I had to go back and get it. That worked out great because I was given a lot more stuff, but that's another story. So here's the pics of the fix. I v'd it out a little and brazed it. Should be good for another 70 years.
I had a Monarch tool room lathe with the lead screw reverse feature; it is wonderful for (especially) short threads and cutting threads into blind holes I assume that there are trip collars that can be positioned on the trip shaft to shift the clutch into neutral at each end of the desired travel.
 
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If you find "TRB" stamped just above the forward spindle bearing, it means it has a tapered roller bearing headstock. I have a 12 X 30 made in 1940 . Mike
 
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