Atlas mill home at last

Alright I got started taking it apart this morning, I got the motor off as well as the table, haven’t found any problems so far.I'm going to need a lot of degreaser!!

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So now I have removed the back gear cover and the table feed mechanism. The gears seem in good shape, no broken teeth. I still haven’t gotten into the knee yet so I still haven’t resolved that problem. I did find one hex nut with the head sheared off; I will have to fix that later. See pics below.

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Cool! I love this sort of stuff. If you haven't tried it yet, I had really good results removing rust with Evapo-rust. Should be perfect for the little bit your machine has.
-Ryan
 
Nine,

It's a horizontal mill. Horizontal and vertical mills in the same size class can each do or do easily about 95% of what the other can do.

Robert D.
 
Here are some views of the back cover of the mill with the gears. Also notice in the side view of the cover the "atlas change o matic" name plate is missing,not sure what to do about that.

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Keep the photos coming!

I also enjoy cleaning up old equipment, the reward is putting it back together and having a new old machine again.
 
Disassembley is going a little slow. I managed to get the gear plate off but still having problems with the knee,will try to post more pictures tomorrow.
 
Did we loose a few pictures and post? Well anyway here is a picture of the mysterious item from the other day,it turns out it was a coolent pump. The pump does not look like it is in very good shape,and the way it was installed (duc taped wires!) leads me to belive that it was an aftermarket deal.Trying to get the support arm to slide out but there is some rust so it is fighting me,put some oil around it and will let that soak in before I try again.

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Robert,

Yes. Most of yesterday was lost. The site went down and had to be restored from the most recent backup.

Robert D.
 
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robert1352 said:
Did we loose a few pictures and post? Well anyway here is a picture of the mysterious item from the other day,it turns out it was a coolent pump. The pump does not look like it is in very good shape,and the way it was installed (duc taped wires!) leads me to belive that it was an aftermarket deal.Trying to get the support arm to slide out but there is some rust so it is fighting me,put some oil around it and will let that soak in before I try again.
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This pump was like as not an original Atlas accessory. Atlas offered a pump, coolant tank and spray spiggot and a coolant holding tank that was a steel box that sat under the machine with hoses leading from the box to the pump. It would either be an original Atlas, or an aftermarket for that time but Atlas did offer pumps that looked just as this one does I can verify that for you. I would not toss that pump.

The pump and coolant setup was an accessory to the machine too.
 
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