Hardening is done before grinding so they can take any warp and twist out of it, so he's already undersize. That was what "Original Myford" told me when I inquired. Any decent machine shop with a suitable surface grinder should be able to regrind a flat bed lathe - suitable meaning long enough travel to accomodate the length of the bed. Nigel B ...

For an exact sized hole. use an oversized drill or a drill ground slightly off center. ff64 MANUAL OF LATHE OPERATION MACHINING MICARTA Grind tools as for Formica gear m a terial. High sp eeds around 200 to 300 feet per minute are recommended, using …

Re:Lathe bed grinding service. Hi. I guess by "mill slide" you are referring to a boring table fitted in place. of the standard compound rest assembly. The most likely cause of the problem is that the dovetail ways on the saddle. are worn in the middle …

To the right the lathe bed ways are being ground on our 36" x 36" x 12' way grinder. After way grinding or hand scraping the bodywork is touched up and finished painted. Parts are then returned to the disassembly area where the lathe is re-assembled. To the right you see the set-up for hand scraping a lathe saddle to the lathe bed.

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Well, my memory isn't as good as I thought it was. I just found the paperwork for grinding the bed of my Sheldon lathe. It was done in 2001 by the American Grinding and Machine Company, not Chicago Grinding: Grinding - Chicago, Illinois - American Grinding & Machine Company American Grinding and Machine Company offer a plethora of grinding ...

Properly and accurately ground beds and slides do not need to be scraped in. Some high end lathes are scraped in after grinding, either superficially for looks or seriously for ultimate accuracy and damn the cost. Other lathes are scraped after grinding because the old grinder is little more accurate than the clapped out lathe.

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The flat ways do not make the job much easier, and the other surfaces of the lathe should be made flat, parallel, and square, with the proper geometry, as well. Intuition will lead you down the wrong paths. Typical machine shops cannot handle grinding lathe beds.

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>> wear grinding a bed like this only add more sway to the bed. > I did this on a 6 foot Sheldon R15 lathe about a decade ago. > It roughly replicates the tailstock ways onto the saddle ways.

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There is a place in my state that reconditions machinery and grinding lathe beds is part of what they do. I've seen the machine that does the grinding. The wanted $7000 to recondition my Clausing 5900 or $1500 just to grind the bed and that does not include fitting the carriage, head or …

Bed Grinding & Restoration . After using K81121 for 6 months or so it was time to get serious about rebuilding it. Prior to my ownership it was a working lathe in a Toolroom and had certainly been well used, and probably a bit abused in some areas. The lathe bed was one area where the wear from long use was evident.

>> wear grinding a bed like this only add more sway to the bed. > I did this on a 6 foot Sheldon R15 lathe about a decade ago. > It roughly replicates the tailstock ways onto the saddle ways.

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Sending the bed off for a regrind is out as that would be thousands. The plan is to make up a frame that will bolt to some pretapped holes in the side of the lathe bed and using some linear rail, make up a carriage that I can attach a tool post grinder to.

Flat bed CNC lathes, two rails parallel to the plane and the ground plane. Slant bed CNC lathes, two rails and the plane of the ground plane intersect into a bevel angle has 30 °, 45 °, 60 °, 75 ° points. From the machine side, the level of bed CNC lathe bed was a square, slant bed CNC lathe bed right-angled triangle.

If the grinding shop knows its business, scraping may not be necessary. Scraping might be the easiest way to re-fit the headstock, carriage, and tailstock though. Or, in theory at least you could forgo the grinding and do it all by scraping, but it would be a heck of a lot of work to scrape all the lathe ways to-form and parallel for 36 inches ...

The usual source mentioned is Commerce Grinding in Dallas, TX. Since there have been several 10EE regrinds recently, perhaps a review of the relevant threads would be informative. Using "bed grinding" as a seach key turned up twelve threads.

Wet is often a must grinding such a large part. A pause at the ends, off the part might insure not burning the surface as a surface burn can bend a lathe bed and then it is a bugger to make it straight again. Yes, sometimes a cup-type wheel is used.

Re: Southbend 9" bed grinding? Post by EnduroRdr » Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:31 am stevec wrote: I may be committing forum suicide here but I feel that the expense of having a 60+ year old lathe bed ground and scraped (remember the carriage, headstock and tailstock have to be re-worked to match the new bed) is a mistake.

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Most lathes do require some fitting there to achieve best alignment. Pete. Russ B: 19/05/2016 15:10:43: 599 forum posts 26 photos: Bazyle thanks, they have assured me they will be grinding the minimum possible off the bed. I did think about the tailstock and if needed, I will (attempt) to make a new base from scratch and hand scrape it to fit.

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The bed ways of the lathe are covered properly with any cloth to protect from dust. The water or oil is placed in a small pan such that the grit falls in it without laying on the bed ways. For external grinding, a powerful grinder is used which might be at least 100mm in …

Re: Advice on grinding lathe bed wanted. Post. by Chris_W » Sat Aug 14, 2004 2:23 am. Kimball, Your friend is in luck. Schaffer Grinding in Montebello does bed regrinding and is much less than South Bend. They can also refit the saddle at the same time. (323) 724-4476.

Ken. Try a company that rebuilds car engines etc, they will have a surface grinder for cylinder heads, I'm sure that this will do your lathe bed. Ken. Not likely. Their machines will usually grind only the top surface of the job. Not suitable for the vertical shear surfaces or V ways etc. Some of the cowboys mill cylinder heads.

The bed ways and carriage ways on my Sheldon lathe were ground by American Machine & Grinding out of Chicago back in 2001. They only did what's referred to as a "dusting" in that they removed a maximum of .002" of material. The service isn't cheap. Back in 2001 it cost $425.00 to do a 56" bed and carriage. I.

Small lathe, short bed, more problems vs a large lathe and long bed. The Star is fairly small and short. The 0.015 is an amount that would be machined (planer, mill) before scraping, or just ground. Taking off a couple thou on a long set of surfaces is not a fun scraping job, let alone 7x that much. Better to rough it in and then finish by ...

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