B'Port clone rebuild begins

akjeff said:
Mill is looking good! I did the same exact thing to a bearing boss on my Lagun. It was a pretty thick/beefy part and it spalled off a couple of chunks. There was enough meat that I was able to fill the voids with TIG braze aluminum-bronze and re-machine.
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This one is like pot metal, I'll make one out of aluminum.
 
Lots of other projects but one small victory. I got the bearing retaining plate made. Had an odd piece of 6061, so here we are.
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Now I just have to find my transfer screws and drill mounting holes.
 
If you look at the dates from the previous posts, you can tell I'm taking a terribly long time to work on this project.
But, I'm back on it, and I have a new problem. I posted this in the ask questions forum as well, if that's an issue let me know I'll fix it.

The X & Y axis feed nuts are stuck in the housing. Actually I was able to get the Y axis (front to back) nut out by threading in the feed screw and pressing it out on a press. That may not be the right way but that's all I could figure out to work. And it was tightish.

For the X, I can't find any pins or screws, the key was driven out, the screws that tighten backlash are out.....I can't see anything that is holding it in. I would press it out also, but its reverse thread from the Y lead screw so......

The threads were filled with grease and I'm really worried about the backlash.
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The feed nut looks different, with 'extra' slots already cut in it, to me.

I'm going to put a DRO on this mill, I already have it on hand. I'm wondering about splitting the feed nuts or just leaving them and letting the DRO worry about backlash.

But first I'm trying to figure out how to get the other nut out.
I'm open for suggestions
 
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