Harrison Horizontal/Vertical Mill Restoration

[Carl Wilson]

Thanks for that info. I'd more or less gleaned as much. I don't think I really need to worry. Despite the machine being dirty I think it has been little used.

 

[Carl Wilson]

I have been absent from this thread for quite a while. I have not done much work on the mill as I have been shifting my workshop around, and very busy with work.

I needed to find a way to get the mill off the pallet it came on and move it around easily. Below is my solution. I hope you find it interesting.

Carl.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Welcome 'back', Carl. I like your solution to moving stuff about .

 

[Carl Wilson]

Thank you Slim, glad you liked the film.

 

[cheb]

I built this for mine.

 

[daleyd]

Caught a bit of the video while waiting for some stuff to arrive at work will watch it properly later but looks a great solution

 

[Carl Wilson]

Thank you daleyd.

 

[fizzy]

Nice job!
I am lucky I have a forklift and a huge real 4 ton lift engine crane.
I tend to leave most of my stuff on pallets though - as I always have to move them around. An electric pallet truck is a Godsend.

 

[Carl Wilson]

Hello, I hope you are all well. Not really posted anything on this project for a while as I have been trying to get my youtube channel going. It isn't much at the moment, but I am trying to improve it. A few of you have beem kind enough to subscribe, and for that I am very grateful.

This week I removed the vertical head from my machine.

It was relatively straightforward. I used my engine crane. The head balanced nicely. At first I thought that the spindle forward bearing housing was being used as a locating feature for the head. It isn't though.

There is a dowel on the head and a corresponding hole on the main body of the machine that serves this purpose.

For some reason, the dowel seems to have been withdrawn at some point in the past and not reseated.

 

[My Old Landy]

Will we see a new video soon?

 

[Carl Wilson]

Yes you will. I am on holiday at the moment but there will be a new video soon with a special guest.

 

[Carl Wilson]

 

[Carl Wilson]

Hi all, I have had some fun taking the knee and associated leadscrew off my mill. I hope you enjoy it. I need a bit of phosphor bronze now. Anyone have a good source of bar ends?

 

[Fastdruid]

This is what the original should look like...

Oil nipple currently removed from mine but you can see where it lived.

Also, crap photo as it appears I didn't ever take a photo of it (was just in the background where I was measuring things for drawing stuff in CAD) but the Z handle bearings and gear is one assembly, 4 screws and the entire thing just pulls out.

 

[Carl Wilson]

Top notch information my friend, much appreciated. Also your housing has straight sides whereas mine was/is tapered. Just goes to show the range of variation.

Thanks for your really useful input and thanks for subscribing to my channel too.

 

[Carl Wilson]

Here is the latest update. I finished the puller tool for the gearbox bearing locating bushes.

Next film will detail further stripping of the knee and assessment of the lead screw and lead nut for wear.

 

[Carl Wilson]

Next update as presaged above, hope you enjoy, please feel free to comment:-

Thanks!

 

[Carl Wilson]

Hello people! Here is the next bit! Part B to follow.

 

[Fastdruid]

Because I mentioned it in a comment on YouTube, this is the NuLoK 3 I was referring to.

 

[Carl Wilson]

Thank you my friend, much appreciated.