Elliot progress No. 1

[slim_boy_fat]

Doesn't half feel awful taking sandpaper to headlamps eh? Seeing them reappear as the grades go up is fun though.

Aye, I believe they call it 'squeaky bum' time - esp as a replacement would cost c. £1,000 from BMW if it all went wrong [Adaptive Xenons] . Worth the end result though

 

[MCKDAVID]

sound, will have a look out for it. I would leave the blue lines round that light that beemer, suits it....

 

[balmerchris]

Got started back at the drill again, all this heat and dry weather is perfect for spray painting outside.

 

[balmerchris]

View attachment 147129 All the big bits back together now. Need a few new fasteners for the belt cover and a nut for the depth stop. Then find some bravery to put the spring back on to the quill arbor. Oh and have to strip and clean the chuck.

 

[balmerchris]

Does anyone know where to get a tapered machine pin? It holds on the feed handle to the arbor.

 

[Seadog]

The spring is easy. Assemble it slack and then wind the aluminium knob anti-clockwise until the quill is held fully home. Don't forget to tighten the lock screw into one of the holes in the knob. The pin should be a standard taper pin. You can get them from eBay or any decent engineers' supplier.

 

[rtbcomp]

Google is probably your friend with that one. Bearing suppliers sometimes stock them.

 

[Turbo]

If it is the same as a Meddings the nuts for the depth stop are a large diameter with a very fine thread. I discovered that the thin lock nuts that come on electrical sensors & bulkhead mount switches are the same thread. You might have to raid the parts store at work, that's where I found mine!

 

[rtbcomp]

On my Progress No2 it looks like 14 TPI and 5/8 in diameter - ie 5/8 BSF