Enco 105-1110/RF-30 just landed in my shop...

[Richard King 2]

I would also buy and install some way wipers. McMaster Call sells 16" strips . SKF sells the old Chicago Rawhide wipers too...or make some out of white felt and some sheet metal like old Logan or South Bend Lathes used. Another tip, buy a stiff paint brush to brush the chips so you vacuum cleaner sucks them up. Never blow off the chips.....good way to blow chips under the no wippered ways. How about cut and pasting what we are talking about in private messages about fixing the table. I am sure many would like to know how to do that too. Rich

 

[Richard King 2]

You may want to set the base on 3 points 2 in back and one under front. we can talk about that later....it's close to my bed time....lol

 

[TerryH]

I would also buy and install some way wipers. McMaster Call sells 16" strips . SKF sells the old Chicago Rawhide wipers too...or make some out of white felt and some sheet metal like old Logan or South Bend Lathes used. Another tip, buy a stiff paint brush to brush the chips so you vacuum cleaner sucks them up. Never blow off the chips.....good way to blow chips under the no wippered ways. How about cut and pasting what we are talking about in private messages about fixing the table. I am sure many would like to know how to do that too. Rich

Thanks for your help Rich! I will chronicle attempting to fix the table once I start down that road. As you can probably tell I like to take pictures and write so hopefully I can document the process for others to see. I know I'm not the only one that has this issue.

 

[TerryH]

You may want to set the base on 3 points 2 in back and one under front. we can talk about that later....it's close to my bed time....lol

Well color me interested.

 

[TerryH]

This is about the point in every project where I start to question what I was even thinking.

 

[TerryH]

If there was any chance that anyone was wondering if I had lost my mind this should end all doubt. What a freaking project. This has got to be the roughest piece of metal I have ever worked on. Nearly every inch was covered with some sort of 1996 Taiwanese body filler. I ended up grinding a good portion of that off and smoothing everything out with some modern US body filler. lol... Finally got some primer on it tonight. Hopefully all this will be worth it.

 

[Cadillac STS]

Looks good.

might consider changing the Drive belt to a nice new one if it hasn’t been changed in the over 20 years since new. It might run even smoother.

For the light there are some options of ring light LED ones on eBay. Those are nice, hold to the spindle with magnets and put light 360 degrees around where it is needed

 

[TerryH]

Looks good.

might consider changing the Drive belt to a nice new one if it hasn’t been changed in the over 20 years since new. It might run even smoother.

For the light there are some options of ring light LED ones on eBay. Those are nice, hold to the spindle with magnets and put light 360 degrees around where it is needed

Thanks! The belts look new but who knows? They could be the originals. I'll probably end up link belts on it. I'll have to check out those lights. I have great lighting where the mill is but still need a task light for it.

 

[craptain]

That body filler is used on 100% of all Chinese/ Taiwanese castings. I don't know why they can't get a better finish. I am also interested in the ring light. I saw one on a YouTube video and was very impressed.

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[TerryH]

That body filler is used on 100% of all Chinese/ Taiwanese castings. I don't know why they can't get a better finish. I am also interested in the ring light. I saw one on a YouTube video and was very impressed.

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I'm guessing that these are sand castings? Can't imagine how they could possible be this rough but they are. It's almost like the carved them out of lava rock.