Atlas 954 Lathe

[Reuben Bailey]

Evaporust rules!



That faceplate had a light coat of rust. A few hours of soaking and a bit of rubbing with a rag after it came out and that is what you have!






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[Reuben Bailey]

Same with the mounting plate for the four jaw...


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[Reuben Bailey]

Getting further along with cleanup and paint. When I turned my attention to the traverse gears in the saddle, I found that the "transmission case" (casting 9-11) had broken. The gears and their shaft are fine. I want to make a new case out of aluminum - to do that I need to get one gear off of the shaft. The ends of the shaft are upset to keep the gears in place. Somewhere I saw a suggestion as to how to remove them, but I can't seem to find the thread. *scratching head* I seem to recall it was pressing the shaft out with good support for the gear. Thoughts?

 

[Reuben Bailey]

Further progress...


Definitely a "rough finish" rather than a "museum quality" paint job, but it will keep it from rusting, and does look decent, to my eyes anyways.

Using Rustoleum Painter's Touch Winter Gray Gloss spray paint.


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[wa5cab]

Looks like you are making good progress. Except for the baby blue paint.

 

[Reuben Bailey]

*chuckle* It actually has less blue in it in person. I would have preferred it to have more blue than it actually does, such as a steel or slate grey. I'll see if I can get pics in better light so the color is more accurate. *chuckle*


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[Mondo]

Getting further along with cleanup and paint. When I turned my attention to the traverse gears in the saddle, I found that the "transmission case" (casting 9-11) had broken. The gears and their shaft are fine. I want to make a new case out of aluminum - to do that I need to get one gear off of the shaft. The ends of the shaft are upset to keep the gears in place. Somewhere I saw a suggestion as to how to remove them, but I can't seem to find the thread. *scratching head* I seem to recall it was pressing the shaft out with good support for the gear. Thoughts?

When I serviced this sub-assembly I supported the gear on the slightly open jaws of a vise and used a pin punch and ball peen hammer to knock the shaft out.
Putting the assembly back together I filed the square ends of the shaft slightly just to remove any remaining burrs, installed the gear, stood the assembly on end on a steel plate as an anvil, set a center punch on the shaft close to the interface with the square hole in the gear and rapped it several times with the hammer, repeating this in several places to "stake" the shaft to the gear.

Spiral_Chips

 

[Reuben Bailey]

Those show the color a bit better.

Thanks for the info, Spiral. I will see what I can do with it.


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Edit: can others see the pictures in this post? They show up for me through TapaTalk, and in the edit pane, but not in the main thread view... *headscratcher*

 

[Reuben Bailey]

Shaft came out of the gear with no problems. Thanks again for that.

Found out that 28 and 29 inch belts are not long enough for the countershaft to spindle drives. Seems like I need 2 30" and one 31", or perhaps 31" and 32".

Tooling for my Taig and raw materials for making a new traverse "transmission" are on the way.

 

[wa5cab]

When you do settle on the proper belts, please publish the list using the industry standard par numbers. The 918 and 936...954's we don't have that information on.