Alba metal shaper refurbishing

[slim_boy_fat]

Lol. Having a sale can be good. But also bad.

Aye, the 'clear out' just creates space for accumulating more stuff.

 

[God mode restorations]

Aye, the 'clear out' just creates space for accumulating more stuff.

Yes that's the good bit of a clear out. Will be making room this year for new goodies and don't give a toss what she says about it

 

[Screwdriver]

Well, I usually just build another shed.

It doesn't help

 

[Dieselman 63]

Yes, think twice, even thrice before you go taking the paint off these old machines. Unless it's truly knackered and you can see rust forming underneath leave it be. My grinder had rust underneath and a true botch job of repainting so it had to go. The pain of re-applying filler is getting to me, and I've not even begun the main section, just small bits! Saying that, it does look really good all smooth. I was naive in thinking one tin of filler would do the machine, it's looking like at least three now and a few more cans of spray filler-primer. Your castings on this machine look a lot smoother than what's under the filler on my grinder. It's like the surface of the moon in places!

 

[God mode restorations]

Guys.
Having a bit of a problem with a bolt.
The bolt is naffed. But after measuring it's coming out at 3/8th 20 tpi. All the other bolts and sets on the shaper are all unc. But 3/8th
20 don't match anything in unc or unf on my charts.

 

[Seadog]

3/8 BSF Spencer

 

[Hood]

BSF I think

Edit, too late

 

[Hood]

Also the others are most likely whitworth rather than UNC, easiest way to tell would be if there is a 1/2" one, threads for Whit is 12TPI, UNC is 13.

 

[God mode restorations]

Awesome. Cheers guys.

 

[Gritineye]

You might like to make yourself one of these from an old 7/16" whit spanner, gets to the adjusting nut even on the shortest stroke, also works as a crank to check the ram travel.

Bernard

 

[God mode restorations]

You might like to make yourself one of these from an old 7/16" whit spanner, gets to the adjusting nut even on the shortest stroke, also works as a crank to check the ram travel.

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Bernard

Good idea. Thank you

 

[God mode restorations]

Also the others are most likely whitworth rather than UNC, easiest way to tell would be if there is a 1/2" one, threads for Whit is 12TPI, UNC is 13.

Ok. I got a 1/2 bolt out the shaper. This bolt is 12 tpi unc.

 

[Hood]

If it is 12TPI then it is Whitworth, you can also usually tell by the monster sized hex on it

 

[God mode restorations]

If it is 12TPI then it is Whitworth, you can also usually tell by the monster sized hex on it

My apologies. After very close examination it's whitworth. Can just see the difference in the degree in the cut 55

 

[Hood]

As said though, the easy way is to find a 1/2" bolt/screw as 1/2" Whitworth is 12TPI where 1/2" UNC is 13TPI, so easy to distinguish them. All other sizes of whitworth and UNC share the same TPI until you go big, think over 1 1/2" from memory.

 

[God mode restorations]

As said though, the easy way is to find a 1/2" bolt/screw as 1/2" Whitworth is 12TPI where 1/2" UNC is 13TPI, so easy to distinguish them. All other sizes of whitworth and UNC share the same TPI until you go big, think over 1 1/2" from memory.

Thanks for the information. Will put an order in for some whitworth bolts. Sets. Grub screws. And the smaller stuff is identical between unc and whitworth. That's where I got confused.

 

[Hood]

Thanks for the information. Will put an order in for some whitworth bolts. Sets. Grub screws. And the smaller stuff is identical between unc and whitworth. That's where I got confused.

The tpi is identical but angle different, whit is 55 degrees where UNC is 60.

 

[God mode restorations]

Am thinking of pulling the internals as it looks very messy in there. Should of done that first.

 

[God mode restorations]

Yep, get all that out or it'll only wear stuff out.

That's my thoughts to. Will pull them.

 

[Dieselman 63]

That looks like a Gryphon motor, same casting as on my grinder.