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I've got two and half Meddings drills with the M4 back-geared head. Here's the thread on the first drill I renovated, it's an A10 radial arm drill. It was well knackered with bits missing like the proper belt cover, so I bought two donor drills.
One had been well maintained right up to the moment it was knocked off the blacksmith's bench and ended up with a smashed main body casting. Before that it had been in an aerospace factory.
The second came from a workshop in Burnley, so very local to me. It was absolutely filthy and looked like it had never been maintained. It was sold as spares/repair. I suspect this is why it was sold. Melted 3 phase cable.
This is what it looked like before it was cannibalised for its belt cover and a few other bits, I had cleaned some of the carp off it by this time, when I got it, it was lathered in grease.
And this is what it looked like earlier, I took the gearbox out yesterday.
The radial arm drill has developed an oil leak from the oil seal in the base of the gearbox, the gearbox is the one that came off the one that fell off the blacksmith's bench. So I took the gearbox off the oily one to take a look. After a good clean its actually very good, still full of oil, but very thick oil, maybe because of the quill seal. The sacrificial gears are good as are all the bearings, including on the the quill. No damage to the quill either. So looks can be deceiving.
The plan is as follows
1.) Replace the seal on the gearbox from the oily drill
2.) Swap that for the gearbox on the radial arm saw and replace its seal too.
3.) While I'm at it, paint the oily drill's bits
4.) Use the base from the drill that fell off the blacksmith's bench, this will get paint too
5.) Once complete, consider whether to move on the Warco mill/drill and use this instead for general drilling seeing as I have two Tom Senior mills.
The base from the drill that fell of the bench is a posh one, if you look here, near the bottom of the page Meddings have the "Head Raising Mechanism", HRM, or basically a rack and pinion. You can see the handle below, the rack is hiding.
There's a collar above the rack that the head sits on, There's no intermediate table, just tee slots in the base.
The cast belt cover from the oily one is on the radial arm drill, but the pressed steel one that came with the smashed drill is fine, just a couple of dents to remove
Oily drill's head now stripped ready for the parts washer, work stops play
Once its all complete, apart from some bits that I may keep, I may move on a few spares, but I'm not doing any of that until its finished for obvious reasons
Cheers
Andy
One had been well maintained right up to the moment it was knocked off the blacksmith's bench and ended up with a smashed main body casting. Before that it had been in an aerospace factory.
The second came from a workshop in Burnley, so very local to me. It was absolutely filthy and looked like it had never been maintained. It was sold as spares/repair. I suspect this is why it was sold. Melted 3 phase cable.
This is what it looked like before it was cannibalised for its belt cover and a few other bits, I had cleaned some of the carp off it by this time, when I got it, it was lathered in grease.
And this is what it looked like earlier, I took the gearbox out yesterday.
The radial arm drill has developed an oil leak from the oil seal in the base of the gearbox, the gearbox is the one that came off the one that fell off the blacksmith's bench. So I took the gearbox off the oily one to take a look. After a good clean its actually very good, still full of oil, but very thick oil, maybe because of the quill seal. The sacrificial gears are good as are all the bearings, including on the the quill. No damage to the quill either. So looks can be deceiving.
The plan is as follows
1.) Replace the seal on the gearbox from the oily drill
2.) Swap that for the gearbox on the radial arm saw and replace its seal too.
3.) While I'm at it, paint the oily drill's bits
4.) Use the base from the drill that fell off the blacksmith's bench, this will get paint too
5.) Once complete, consider whether to move on the Warco mill/drill and use this instead for general drilling seeing as I have two Tom Senior mills.
The base from the drill that fell of the bench is a posh one, if you look here, near the bottom of the page Meddings have the "Head Raising Mechanism", HRM, or basically a rack and pinion. You can see the handle below, the rack is hiding.
There's a collar above the rack that the head sits on, There's no intermediate table, just tee slots in the base.
The cast belt cover from the oily one is on the radial arm drill, but the pressed steel one that came with the smashed drill is fine, just a couple of dents to remove
Oily drill's head now stripped ready for the parts washer, work stops play
Once its all complete, apart from some bits that I may keep, I may move on a few spares, but I'm not doing any of that until its finished for obvious reasons
Cheers
Andy