Hi rescued this machine this week from getting smashed,know some people may think its not worth saving but i like old machines and would rather put some time into this than a chinese machine the other reason is if you can forgive this yorkshire saying its built like a brick **** house lol anyway its been around since the 1940,s and still working so that deserves some respect alone.
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001665.jpg
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001664.jpg
yeah it has had a hard life but all the ways and the table moves nicely with no apparent wear it worked but was very noisey but i found that the belt had been replaced with a round joined belt that was noisey when the joint ran over the pulleys but after removing this the bearings are smooth as silk with no wear in them.The 2speed lever and reverse leaver missing isnt an issue as i would have removed them myself
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001666.jpg
then i found whoever fitted the motor had left the pulleys so far out of line that the belt was hitting the pulleys causing them to ring so on removing the motor i found the front bearing had partially collapsed.The motor that had been fitted was 1hp which for the size of the machine i thought was a bit oversized so one question i would like to ask is would a 1/2hp motor be strong enough and secondly to save spliting the windings and adding a reversing switch does this really need to run in reverse at all. Its a bit too warm here at the moment to be draging this around and pulling it down so the idea was to get it running smoothly then leaving it untill the end of the year to strip it and replace the smooth coat and paint it and to repair the cabinet were the switch gear has been removed.
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001667.jpg
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001668.jpg
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001665.jpg
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001664.jpg
yeah it has had a hard life but all the ways and the table moves nicely with no apparent wear it worked but was very noisey but i found that the belt had been replaced with a round joined belt that was noisey when the joint ran over the pulleys but after removing this the bearings are smooth as silk with no wear in them.The 2speed lever and reverse leaver missing isnt an issue as i would have removed them myself
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001666.jpg
then i found whoever fitted the motor had left the pulleys so far out of line that the belt was hitting the pulleys causing them to ring so on removing the motor i found the front bearing had partially collapsed.The motor that had been fitted was 1hp which for the size of the machine i thought was a bit oversized so one question i would like to ask is would a 1/2hp motor be strong enough and secondly to save spliting the windings and adding a reversing switch does this really need to run in reverse at all. Its a bit too warm here at the moment to be draging this around and pulling it down so the idea was to get it running smoothly then leaving it untill the end of the year to strip it and replace the smooth coat and paint it and to repair the cabinet were the switch gear has been removed.
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001667.jpg
http://i1061.photobucket.com/albums/t462/rayfirth/markham grange/hardhinge/S6001668.jpg
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