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Hello everyone!
Been posting some of this machine on another machinist forum but figured I should post here as well.
Always fun and education to have more input considering that I'm very much an amateur at these things.
I consider this entire machine an ongoing project hence why it's here as a members project.
WARNING, I LIKE TO POST A LOT OF PICTURES
Long story short, I've wanted machines that could work metal ever since I was in the early teens, I like making things simply put.
16 or so years later I finally had the funds and space to turn my dream into a reality.
I had been looking at various ad sites for a while and eventually this 1947 K&T 2HL showed up for aprox $600 so I went and picked it up as fast as possible.
Weighing in at around 2600 pounds it's a bit of a handful for someone with no real equipment. The seller helped us load it up on the trailer I had borrowed.
Had a friendly contractor working in the area help me lift it off the trailer with his digger but getting it the rest of the way into the garage was a bit of an adventure..
Drove our little golf in and attached a chainblock to try and pull it in, which often resulted in the car sliding rather than the mill...
Eventually managed by very carefully hoisting the rear up and letting the jack act as a dolly of sorts ontop of some scrap plate.
Here it sits with my entire 'arsenal' of tooling in the background.
What followed was what felt like an eternity of cleaning to get rid of old grime, loosening seized components and just generally trying to understand my first ever milling machine.
And here's my first "real" project with it.
I had done some tiny milling before but here I milled out all the "teeth" on the bottom thing and milling a bunch of other stuff to square and size.
The whole thing is a manual splitter for firewood
Sure, you could do this with an angle grinder but where's the fun in that?
After using it for a while I decided to do a small teardown since I was constantly worrying how the ways and oiling systems looked underneath.
It is after all 72 years old.
On top of the knee ways you have a saddle for Y movement and also Z axis rotation(ie the entire X table can rotate).
This is one of the nicer looking parts... Lots of sludge to remove and the oilwicks were .. Let's say they had passed their "best before" date.
Here's the little X screw, mid-cleanup.
I also started going through the vertical head that would every now and then let out black goo through the spindle bottom..
It was filled to the absolute brim with grease, most of it looking to be from the early 1800's(Ok, maybe not that old)
I took a whole lot of fistfulls of grease out of it...
Been posting some of this machine on another machinist forum but figured I should post here as well.
Always fun and education to have more input considering that I'm very much an amateur at these things.
I consider this entire machine an ongoing project hence why it's here as a members project.
WARNING, I LIKE TO POST A LOT OF PICTURES
Long story short, I've wanted machines that could work metal ever since I was in the early teens, I like making things simply put.
16 or so years later I finally had the funds and space to turn my dream into a reality.
I had been looking at various ad sites for a while and eventually this 1947 K&T 2HL showed up for aprox $600 so I went and picked it up as fast as possible.
Weighing in at around 2600 pounds it's a bit of a handful for someone with no real equipment. The seller helped us load it up on the trailer I had borrowed.
Had a friendly contractor working in the area help me lift it off the trailer with his digger but getting it the rest of the way into the garage was a bit of an adventure..
Drove our little golf in and attached a chainblock to try and pull it in, which often resulted in the car sliding rather than the mill...
Eventually managed by very carefully hoisting the rear up and letting the jack act as a dolly of sorts ontop of some scrap plate.
Here it sits with my entire 'arsenal' of tooling in the background.
What followed was what felt like an eternity of cleaning to get rid of old grime, loosening seized components and just generally trying to understand my first ever milling machine.
And here's my first "real" project with it.
I had done some tiny milling before but here I milled out all the "teeth" on the bottom thing and milling a bunch of other stuff to square and size.
The whole thing is a manual splitter for firewood
Sure, you could do this with an angle grinder but where's the fun in that?
After using it for a while I decided to do a small teardown since I was constantly worrying how the ways and oiling systems looked underneath.
It is after all 72 years old.
On top of the knee ways you have a saddle for Y movement and also Z axis rotation(ie the entire X table can rotate).
This is one of the nicer looking parts... Lots of sludge to remove and the oilwicks were .. Let's say they had passed their "best before" date.
Here's the little X screw, mid-cleanup.
I also started going through the vertical head that would every now and then let out black goo through the spindle bottom..
It was filled to the absolute brim with grease, most of it looking to be from the early 1800's(Ok, maybe not that old)
I took a whole lot of fistfulls of grease out of it...
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