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And Austin why does the gif button not appear in the toolbar outside of GCC?
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Never Has, keeps builds threads from getting silly
 
bgaidan said:
'nother GovDeals score. I was looking at Vapor Hones and wet blasters a couple years ago. Vapor Honing Technoligies is only a couple hours from me and I was talking to them about their scratch and dents that they always have, but it was still going to be $3k+ to get in to a decent non-hobby grade machine. This popped up from a nearby city's water department.....apparently they used to use it to clean brass water meters and it's been mothballed for several years.
I actually ****ed up and must have fat fingered my bid amount (really easy to do on GovDeals) as I thought I bid $1200 and somehow it closed at $1430. I'm betting I fat fingered it at $12,000 or something.....so I'm kind of glad it didn't go higher. To be fair, I was a camp on a wheeling trip and drinking heavily and bidding on my phone. :laughing. Ended up being about $1600 after fees. After picking it up and seeing it in person, I'm fine with my **** up.

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There was a spare pump in the box. Looks like the one on it is new and this is the old one. These diaphragm pumps are stupid easy to rebuild so I'll probably tear this one apart and see if there's anything obvious. I'll keep it as a spare, or, ironically I was talking to bad zuki the other day about finding a small diaphragm pump like this to use as a fluid pump for filling transmissions and whatnot. :smokin:

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Holly-o-****. :eek: This is the current Version of the same cabinet. Mine says Clemco Industries on the Label, but they apparently just Absorbed Zero and started selling them straight as Clemco. The data plate on mine says it was made in '99.
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A used one on Ebay
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Makes me feel a little better about how much I paid for it.
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Nice score. It cost me around $2K to build mine.
 
Tech Tim said:
Nice score. It cost me around $2K to build mine.
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Yeah, the more I looked at it, the better I feel about paying a little more than I had planned. I plugged it in and hooked air to it and the blower came right on and the pump started making those cool diaphragm pump sounds. The sump was dry and had less than an inch of what looked like really fine glass bead in it. There was bit of water in the pump that splooged out when I turned it on so I'm pretty confident everything will work. Sadly, it's going to sit under my carport for a while until I can move some **** around in the shop, and hopefully sell some **** to make room for it. Probably going to make a roller base for it as well.


Does this look like it works about the same way as yours or the other commercial ones? From what I gather, it just uses the diaphragm pump to pull slurry out of the sump and then mixes it with high speed air at the gun. I never really looked in to how the VHT ones worked. I know it looked like they used external bins for their slurry. I'm not even sure if this is the same process as what they're calling "vapor honing".
 
bgaidan said:
Does this look like it works about the same way as yours or the other commercial ones? From what I gather, it just uses the diaphragm pump to pull slurry out of the sump and then mixes it with high speed air at the gun. I never really looked in to how the VHT ones worked. I know it looked like they used external bins for their slurry. I'm not even sure if this is the same process as what they're calling "vapor honing".
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That's pretty much it. Mine uses a big trash pump and a couple PVC jet tubes to mix it up into a slurry and feed it to the gun.
The key to get these things to work good is lots of air. My compressor supposedly puts out 23CFM, though I doubt it is much over 18.
 
Finally found a decent L2 mount 4 jaw chuck for the Leblond. 15" 4 jaw Cushman and also a solid 12" drive plate. The 4 jaw looks to be in real good condition, the screws are real good, no cracks or chips in them, and the jaws don't look like they have been abused or crashed. Should serve me well I think. the threads and taper on the L2 mount are also good looking, better than the chucks that came with the lathe, haha

I probably won't use the driveplate for spindle turning, I'll probably find or make a faceplate and mount it to this for holding non-round things with clamps and bolts and such that don't fit into a chuck very well. It has good L2 threads and taper on it, I'll face off the end of it so that it's perfectly flat with the machine :)

The 4 jaw I'll probably leave on the machine the majority of the time.

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dnsfailure said:
Finally found a decent L2 mount 4 jaw chuck for the Leblond. 15" 4 jaw Cushman and also a solid 12" drive plate. The 4 jaw looks to be in real good condition, the screws are real good, no cracks or chips in them, and the jaws don't look like they have been abused or crashed. Should serve me well I think. the threads and taper on the L2 mount are also good looking, better than the chucks that came with the lathe, haha

I probably won't use the driveplate for spindle turning, I'll probably find or make a faceplate and mount it to this for holding non-round things with clamps and bolts and such that don't fit into a chuck very well. It has good L2 threads and taper on it, I'll face off the end of it so that it's perfectly flat with the machine :)

The 4 jaw I'll probably leave on the machine the majority of the time.

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That's big ****. Makes my L00 size leblond seem like a play toy, lol.
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
That's big ****. Makes my L00 size leblond seem like a play toy, lol.
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the lathe has 20" of swing, but alot of the L2 chucks and stuff I see is larger than 20", finding chucks less than 20" seems to be not so easy. I still haven't found or even seen photos of a face plate that is 20" or less with an L2 mount, most of them are like 22-30". Seems this machine has a beefy spindle for it's size.
 
bgaidan said:
Need any more L00 stuff? Pretty sure I have chucks, collet chucks and probably face plates from the Cincinnati I sold a couple years ago.
Or did we already talk about this?
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Uh, yes I do, and no I don't believe we've talked about this. I only have a three jaw scroll and a 4 jaw, I'll buy all you got!
 
dnsfailure said:
the lathe has 20" of swing, but alot of the L2 chucks and stuff I see is larger than 20", finding chucks less than 20" seems to be not so easy. I still haven't found or even seen photos of a face plate that is 20" or less with an L2 mount, most of them are like 22-30". Seems this machine has a beefy spindle for it's size.
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That's crazy. Mine is a 14" swing and has a tiny spindle by comparison. Yours come off a navy ship or something?
 
GLTHFJ60 said:
That's crazy. Mine is a 14" swing and has a tiny spindle by comparison. Yours come off a navy ship or something?
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I don't know if it was on a ship or not (my guess is no, because it has no threading capability, probably a roughing lathe for production), but it was definitely US navy in the early 40's. it's stamped USN on it, and the serial number dates it to 40 or 41
 
ready for the engine hoist. Going to lift it up to clean it real good, then mount it. I was just barely able to move it down to the floor on my own, no way I can mount it with out a hoist on my own. So this will take longer than I thought. :homer: got a 1/2" eyebolt threaded in to lift it.
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dnsfailure said:
ready for the engine hoist. Going to lift it up to clean it real good, then mount it. I was just barely able to move it down to the floor on my own, no way I can mount it with out a hoist on my own. So this will take longer than I thought. :homer: got a 1/2" eyebolt threaded in to lift it.
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Looks like a good place for the HF rolling gantry. I intentionally spaced my Monarch away from the wall so the gantry leg would fit behind it. In a stroke of luck, the gantry also perfectly straddles my Fadal, which made removing the table way easier than it could have been.
 
a friend dropped by for a visit during lunch, so I quickly cleaned up the taper and we mounted the chuck. We just heaved it up onto some 2x4's across the bed ways, and pushed it into position with the hand wheel on the apron. It mounted easilly. By myself, yes an engine hoist would be good, or some sort of gantry. maybe in the future.

I started cleaning the chuck with WD40 and a scotchbrite pad, also flushed the screws with WD40, not really much came out of them. The screws look really good. I expected a lot of chips and junk, but it was nothing but grease. I suspect someone cleaned up this chuck a while back and put it on the shelf, and that's where it sat for who knows how long collecting a bit of surface rust.

Anyway, I'll clean up the jaws tomorrow, and maybe do another pass on the chuck body.
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did it not work with the other one?

might be a self-energizing band brake where the more force it is arresting the tighter it winds itself
 
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did it not work with the other one?

might be a self-energizing band brake where the more force it is arresting the tighter it winds itself
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it's all mechanical, it's a clutch kind of like on a manual transmission vehicle, but i haven't looked into it very much. it works, so I don't question it :laughing:
 
dnsfailure said:
Finally found a decent L2 mount 4 jaw chuck for the Leblond. 15" 4 jaw Cushman and also a solid 12" drive plate. The 4 jaw looks to be in real good condition, the screws are real good, no cracks or chips in them, and the jaws don't look like they have been abused or crashed. Should serve me well I think. the threads and taper on the L2 mount are also good looking, better than the chucks that came with the lathe, haha

I probably won't use the driveplate for spindle turning, I'll probably find or make a faceplate and mount it to this for holding non-round things with clamps and bolts and such that don't fit into a chuck very well. It has good L2 threads and taper on it, I'll face off the end of it so that it's perfectly flat with the machine :)

The 4 jaw I'll probably leave on the machine the majority of the time.

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dnsfailure said:
the lathe has 20" of swing, but alot of the L2 chucks and stuff I see is larger than 20", finding chucks less than 20" seems to be not so easy. I still haven't found or even seen photos of a face plate that is 20" or less with an L2 mount, most of them are like 22-30". Seems this machine has a beefy spindle for it's size.
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I have the same chuck in the same L2 flavor backing plate on my 17" swing Colchester Mascot Mammoth. Its a great chuck and is holding some parts I am boring right now. I also have that same drive plate as well as a beat up old BUCK tru-adjust 3 jaw, as well as a 26" face plate as my machine has a gap bed too.

And yes, finding decent L2 stuff is a bit challenging. I have a 10" 6 jaw that needs a custom back plate built. I haven't found any L2 blanks lately so am thinking about getting a piece of bar stock and cutting my own.

For lifting and loading my chuck, I built my own version of the sky crane thing that attaches to the T slots on my carriage.

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