Antique Metal Lathe Restoration, 107yrs old

here's the next restoration project it's a 19 teens Myers lathe made in Pennsylvania the I already took the lead screw off but it has power feed for the carriage and power cross feed this button and this lever that's broken uh it hasn't been overly abused it's been pretty reasonable shape considering uh its age it was doesn't seem to have ever really been stored outside which is nice everything's free I've tried to loosen some bolts they come off easily someone added a Threading indicator after the fact there's a few little upgrades nice thing is it even came with a counter shaft so I'll have the matching cone pulley to go on the roof and have a forward and reverse system and run it over to the line shaft along with the drill press that was restored last time so stay tuned and you will see the transformation here you can see the chart for thread cutting has all the different gear combinations that would be attached to the side here the change gears and up above we have the AR Williams machinery company which was a major distributor of Hardware in this corner of the world based out of Montreal and Toronto and a few other places this is neat and I'd like to find more about it s d and g is the abbreviation for the counties of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry so I don't know if this was used in a municipal shop or a hospital or I don't know so that's going to be neat to figure that one out here on the carriage you can see the main handle to move the carriage this spinning thing is a clutch that engages something to do with the power feed I haven't quite figured it out yet this is the power cross feed this button pull thing and this is to engage the half nut but the handle is broken off and it needs some work everything's a little bit janky or just to be expected I suppose thank you now here is the cross feed gear that's in the uh the Bonnet on the carriage and you can see it's proper janked so I'm going to grind out these teeth and build them up with braids and cut them manually it's also a little bit off because it's a worm wheel you can see the worm is engaged the teeth pretty badly I don't know if that's a design flaw or if the the wear ended up causing it to do that but the teeth break off first on this side you can see some of the damaged ones there and the worms engaging it much harder on this side so I'll try to fix that when I cut it cut the new braids so there are the teeth that have been ground out a bit I'm just going to go ahead and start heating it up and then add some Breeze so here we are one side's been built up with the brass I'll keep going around and then turn it on the lathe and then grind it out [Applause] [Applause] foreign foreign just about ready to reassemble the Bonnet and I have this shaft here the gear sits out here and this goes through the the casting and there's this funky little key right here and I have to make this I'll show you in this one here all it is is round on the bottom and then Square on the top tiny little handmade key so it goes in there and it prevents the shafts from spinning and the gear spins on the shaft so this one was broken off to the point that the shaft started to spin you could see the nut and the other side go wee so I'm just going to put this in the Vise and file it off flush like what's been done with this one here you can kind of see the file marks foreign just make sure it doesn't move foreign there we go I wanted to point something out that I found kind of funny so this is the clutch shaft for the carriage feed that's the knob and you can see there's a little key in there that engages this knob there was no key the old one had exploded into dust so this is the new one that I just filed up recently and I went to clean out the little Groove and look at this there's two tiny little shims so I suppose the craftsperson who was in a rush to get this thing put together a 1915 from what I can tell based on the castings and how this is made there's a good bunch of references for Meyer's lathes on uh I believe it's Practical Machinist website and so the craftsperson said oh damn I took a little bit too much off the key just going to put a couple shims in there so Bing Bong that's how they did it I'm going to put a proper sized key but just wanted to point that out foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign with the lathe restoration tonight I have the whole headstock exploded all over the table I'm going to put it together in a minute and you'll see the time lapse of that no significant problems or some wear on the edge of one of the gears I have to make new little gasket spacer things that were between the bed and the headstock this is an original one it's probably asbestos gasket material or something janky anyway I lost the other one so I'm going to make make some out of new gasket material that happens to be the same thickness of 70 thou so I'll just cut that and then I have the the whole punch there so make that and the bearings the bronze bearings are in fine shape the bearing surfaces are good here too so uh tumblers there's some mess-ups and the casting's quite porous actually it's kind of funny but that that won't affect Precision or accuracy in this case so get it back together in a minute and we'll go on to assembling the whole lathe here's the headstock and I want you to look at this see that porosity there I can put my finger right into one of those big holes it's funny and you can tell it's not and after the fact thing that's from the factory they had that going on here's the gasket here's the material cut it in the hole foreign [Music] thank you [Music] Head Starts together you can see the tumbler gears work both directions very crisp on the back gear you have to engage it on that Cam and then unlock this coupler move it down and out of the way like this and then you get the back gear reduction which works perfectly too so pretty well all this needs is oil I've tightened up the thrust washers and jam nut and tightened up the Caps to where there's no play very happy with it just have to put these on which way which way like this and like this and then it's ready to go over go together final step before complete assembly you're gonna put the tags back on we have the first off the uh thread gear tag foreign [Music] second off above it might have to straighten that rivet second off is the AR Williams Distributor tag nice Keystone shape so I'll just finish up the rivets and then it will cut to the full assembly thank you foreign [Music] thank you here's the first real run of the lead at the back here in Yates so it's a bit slow I can um if I engage tumbler gears here the police crew is starting to turn with gears you can engage this clutch and then it's a very slow power piece for facing or whatever and you can Engage The Cross Keys up here this thing start to go or you can use the hot nut it's running so fully operational all I have to do is use this reamer to ream the other clutch right now in line shaft is directly connected to the laser so when the line shaft is on it's on so I need to fix the clutch to get the two speeds working two directions and then you'll be good to go so here's the first little project this is one of the clutch pulleys so there's like an expanding brake drum that goes inside of this and when you shift and expand that brake drum you engage this pulley there's two pulleys one with a half twist and one that's directly to the shaft line shaft so that depending which way you move you get forward or reverse so here it's just a quick job in the four jaw Chuck I have a disconnected disconnected so I can spin it easily and if you look at a little surface gauge you can see oh that's close and if I go to the opposite side that's far so what I'm going to do is loosen the closed side just a hair and then tighten the loose side and that's going to move it over a little bit and all you do is repeat this process until the surface gauge is pretty well centered so I'm going to tighten that bring it in okay loosen this a little bit just keep doing that and that's pretty good that's pretty good this isn't High Precision work it's good enough for me so I'm going to fire it up and we'll bring the reamer in here so for this reaming I don't want to go too fast I'm going to engage the back gear and we're in the second from top speed so it'll be a fair cut there we go got the key tighten the tail stock and go basically once I'm all the way through then this pulley will be good to connect and I'll have both directions so uh thanks for watching hope you enjoyed and stay tuned for more

Channel: Cast Iron Machines

Views: 7,213

Keywords: antique lathe, machine restoration, handtoolresque, machine resque, vintagemachinery, lineshaft

Id: X4mBs-rK6-w

Length: 18min 38sec (1118 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 20 2022