My New To Me Craftsman Lathe 101.28980 (pic Heavy)

[Wisrianni]

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DAY ONE

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[Wisrianni]

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[Wisrianni]

Three gears in the qcgb were damaged. i managed to find replacements from clausing, here is the gear box off the lathe and it shows how the previous owner kept it.

 

[Wisrianni]

tearing down the gear box. wasnt easy taking care not to break anything lol. and getting ready for cleaning.

 

[Wisrianni]

breaking down the grit and old oil on the gears with purple power then soaked in wd40 until i reassemble it . you can see one of the small gears with a broken tooth i even found the tooth stuck to the gear box lol. look how nasty the purple power got. the shafts show some wear and i dont want to get into making new ones and replacing the babbit yet as it seemed good when i was taking it apart.

 

[dlane]

Hard to tell from the small pics , but the avatar looks good

 

[Wisrianni]

Hard to tell from the small pics , but the avatar looks good

Hahaha thats what i want mine to look like one day. Just gotta get mine runing .

 

[dlane]

Thumbnail pics take to long to open on this site, I gave one of your pics 4 min to open then gave up
Are you resizing them to 600x 800 would help. Quit a few folks here don't try to open small pics .
Don't know why just this site thumbnail pics no good
Should be a good lathe once you get the probs worked out.

 

[roadie33]

Nice lathe.
I have the 101.28990 and had the same situation with one of the QCGB gears. Clausing wanted to much for it so I just milled out the key in the gear and put in my own using epoxy. Worked great and hasn't given me any problems in over a year.
Also check the shaft key way for burrs and such. I had to clean mine up with an endmill, I also extended it the full length of shaft since that was some of the problem with it not going all the way to the left and causing it to shear off the key in the gear.
Changing gears is a whole lot easier now.

 

[Wisrianni]

Nice lathe.
I have the 101.28990 and had the same situation with one of the QCGB gears. Clausing wanted to much for it so I just milled out the key in the gear and put in my own using epoxy. Worked great and hasn't given me any problems in over a year.
Also check the shaft key way for burrs and such. I had to clean mine up with an endmill, I also extended it the full length of shaft since that was some of the problem with it not going all the way to the left and causing it to shear off the key in the gear.
Changing gears is a whole lot easier now.

Yeah when i had to remove the shaft that holds the selector handles that blew my mind that it was half way keyed. When i got it. Letter gear changer was stuck in E and thats what happened it sheared its own key and seized itself onto the shaft. It was a pain getting that out i swore i was gonna break that handle. But i cleaned it up with a small file and the new gear slides perfectly.