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  1. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi again folks :) Well, I'm in agreement with everyone who has shown concern and I'm not going to attempt to work on the quill myself as I was just too dodged out by such a sketchy setup as well. Instead, I've contacted another machinist with a bigger lathe and he has initially agreed to help...
  2. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi guys Well, thankfully the new quill arrived in good form. I am however facing another interesting challenge as I found that it was too big for my lathe's fixed steady. Line boring sprang to mind but the only only round stock I have that's suitable was tagged for a required future tool...
  3. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    As far as I know, Arnald and Ivan haven't traded for some time, my guess is that the quill I got has been kicking around a workshop or somones loft for a fair while and finally made it's way to me. Turning the bottle jack upside down means that there is no need for a ram guide that spans the...
  4. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi guys :) Having pressed the races into the quill, I gave the bearings a bath in some white spirits to remove the shipping grease: I then made some calculations for bearing grease quantity, in my case .2oz per bearing: It was after packing them and getting near to fully assembling it that...
  5. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    It's hard to tell in the pic but I totally filled the jack with oil and I've added a reservoir with extra for the ram travel so I get full stroke. For those that are interested, the build process can be found here...
  6. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi guys :) Had to take time out from the restoration to learn welding in order to make a workshop press so I could install the new quill bearings (what we do for our hobbies eh). Filming myself welding proved problematic for my phone, so I haven't got much in the way of footage of the press...
  7. Canobi

    VFD Wiring

    I can vouch for screw on chucks coming off with sudden stops, exactly that happened to me when I first installed my VFD. Scariest thing that ever happened to me on my lathe since I've had it but luckily I wasn't hurt. It was a close call though, so I now have the ramp to stop time set to about...
  8. Canobi

    Import rotary tables

    Hi Tim I run on a pretty small hobby budget and practically all the quality tooling that makes up my meagre home shop have been purchased inexpensively, albeit second hand. Admittedly it can take some time for the thing your looking for to show up but they do come round and one of my best eBay...
  9. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Not sure what's going on as I can't get them to show up for me either. I can see them in the editor but not once its posted.
  10. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hey guys ;) Being as I haven't been doing anything new or overly intersting of late, I've not posted as I didn't want to bore you all with me repeating tasks of heat blacking the rest of the bolts, followed by short bouts of simple turning to make brass washers. I've have nearly finished all...
  11. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi Davo J Interesting you should mention warping as that possibility had crossed my mind a few times, as well as cracking. The casting I heated has a long split down the back for clamping purposes, so I took an educated guess that it would act as a stress relief while it was flexing during heat...
  12. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Yeh, it was a bit sketchy and I too was a little concerned with how close it came a couple times. I just didn't have enough materials on hand to rig up something to hold it.
  13. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Part #6 is up In this episode I heat black the column support casting bolts.
  14. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi rlukens, thanks for taking a look :) I believe the brass plating will be a bit tougher than paint, and it can be buffed to a high sheen as well.
  15. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Update #5 Column support casting progress.
  16. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Part5 is now up. In this episode in try an experimental technique to put a fine layer of brass on areas of my mill's main column support casting as a decorative precursor to being painted. I've only seen one other person do this and he was applying brass to solid steel so I've not idea how it...
  17. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Thanks clockworkcheva :) My mill bench was cobbled together from discarding from my workplace and just happened to come to 33.5" in hight when it was finished. I find it maybe an inch or two low maybe but it's about right for me.
  18. Canobi

    Restoring, finishing and upgrading a Dore Westbury Mk1 milling machine

    Hi folks :) Part 4 is up and I finally found out what was causing the lower section of the epicuclic pulley to run off kilter.
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