Hello Tim, So you bought the Moulding Center and discovered an 1800 going for the price of a 1200! Wow. Perhaps someone will get inspired. That's the best price I've ever seen.
Begat On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Tim Krause <artmarb...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello All, > > I bought the Horizontal Moulding Center today. After I get it cleaned and > fixed up, I will post some photos and give you my thoughts on this machine. > I think it has some hidden potential. > > What's interesting is the other machine in the ad is actually an 1800, not > a > 1200. It has the 2x and .25 gear set. The machine is missing the right > hand > drive gear and the drive shaft and there are only two drive hubs. The A-G > gears are all there. The z-axis (with digital scale) is missing the stop > but other wise works great. The PC router has the eliminator chuck and is > fully functional. The split nut on the x-axis is worn. The bushings on > the > x-axis need to either be sized or there is a lot of chips in the rails > causing excessive wear on the nut. I did not further investigate the > friction in the carriage. The linear drive is installed and functioning > correctly. The dead center in the tailstock is probably sieved in the 2mt > and there is a pen mandrel in the headstock that might also need to be > loosened (could be seized). It comes with the linear molding table, a new > Nova 4 jaw chuck, HD live center, two dentil molding templates and some > magnate router bits to get people started. > > With some cleaning and a little tender loving care, this will be a very > good > machine for someone. > > -Tim > > > > > > >> Here's the link to craigslist: > > > >>http://eugene.craigslist.org/tls/2786731268.html > > > > > >> Begat > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. > To post to this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills?hl=en.
