meta99
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Post by meta99 on Mar 12, 2011 23:12:33 GMT -5
OK, here goes: First, the general setup: Next the post for the cabrest: The original cabrest: Installed: The home made cabrest: The chamois under the hood: A plexiglass splashguard: If you need different angles, let me know. Sue
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zarguy
fully equipped rock polisher
Cedar City, Utah - rockhound heaven!
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Post by zarguy on Mar 13, 2011 15:59:23 GMT -5
I bought wheels form the same Chinese dealer - Lapidarytool.com & got a bad 3000 grit soft wheel. It was contaminated with larger grit. I emailed them & they sent out a new one pretty quickly. They didn't ask me to ship the old one back. That's pretty good service. I'm not too happy with their coarser grit soft wheels. My 280 grit 6" Nova type wheel lost it's ability to remove scratches from the 220 & 360 hard diamond wheels. I refurbished it with diamond powder I bought from Jadecarver.com. Lynn
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Mar 15, 2011 1:56:23 GMT -5
I came home today and found a package from China. The sales/support guy at lapidarytool.com actually sent me a replacement wheel with only a few e-mails back and forth explaining the problem. I also sent them the picture of the broken wheel. They definitely came through and it looks like they stand behind their products.
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Mar 15, 2011 2:04:24 GMT -5
Sue,
I just took a look at the grinder and finally noticed the two little cab rest post holes thanks to your pics. Thanks! Now I'll have to figure out how to make a replacement cab rest.
Justin
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Post by johnjsgems on Mar 15, 2011 8:37:35 GMT -5
The cab rests usually end up in that drawer of stuff you never use but can't throw away. They mostly get in the way but then I learned to cut on a unit without them.
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Apr 4, 2011 1:06:45 GMT -5
I bought an old FranTom hood/pan and cab rest from catmandewe (thanks Tony!) and finally installed everything onto the base board. I left the set screws out of the shaft spacers and I was just going to put a little blob of silicone seal in the holes. I'm not sure what to do with the spin-on polishing pad thing. It had an old felt pad stuck to a foam backing which was stuck to the aluminum spin-on part. Should I just replace the felt pad?
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Post by johnjsgems on Apr 4, 2011 7:58:57 GMT -5
Depends on condition of the foam disc. If it is OK you can glue on a new leather or felt disc with 3M Feathering Disc Adhesive. If the felt is in good shape and not contaminated you can wash it and try it.
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Post by sitnwrap on Apr 4, 2011 12:07:53 GMT -5
I had to completely take the foam disc off my polisher awhile back as the foam was dried, cracked and peeling. If yours is like that, what I did may be useful to you. After peeling off the polishing pad, I soaked the spinner in 100% acetone in a shallow pan for about an hour. I did this outside and I covered the pan loosely in a plastic bag so the acetone would not evaporate. After an hour, all it took to get the rubber backing off was a little scraping with a putty knife. Again, do this outside as the acetone fumes are not good. I took a couple quick pics for you only because I'm a visual learner myself. After I stripped the rubber from the spinner, I purchased a new rubber backing from John, jsgems. I applied it to the spinner with cement glue, small brown bottle with a brush attached to the cap that I bought at home depot. After that was applied, I applied the polish pad with the 3Mfeathering adhesive that I also bought from John. He is a peach. I did this outside also because of the fumes. I hope this helps.
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Post by mohs on Apr 5, 2011 23:02:20 GMT -5
Justin the machine is looking real good. You did fine job refurbishing it !
Have you mounted a motor? If so, how is that set-up? Underneath or behind?
I’m in the ugly phase on my machine. Got the nuts cracked off and the spindle out. Will need new bearings, collets, flanges, ect…
Does anyone know if there is parts index still available?
Thanks
Ed
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Post by mohs on Apr 7, 2011 23:41:00 GMT -5
This past week much progress as been made on my Frantom It was ugly. The nut on the right hand side was just plain welded rusted minerally crystallized on!! Got it off and it wasn’t pretty. But the saw side nut (left side) was a bit easier. But the whole machine is dissembled Woooo hoo some ugly casualties the saw end of the spindle This is what I’m concentrating on Getting the saw set up Saw table & hood Hopefully a couple weeks & I’ll have the saw turning Anyone know of a Part Index for this machine? Thanks Ed
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drjo
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Honduran Opal & DIY Nut
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Post by drjo on Apr 10, 2011 10:16:56 GMT -5
HaHaHa...A Part Index for this machine, how cute and quaint! Now that I've said that watch someone come up with it Dr Joe .
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Post by mohs on Apr 12, 2011 11:21:51 GMT -5
Ha Ha Doc! well ya never know here’s another causality of the MACHINE ! This one hurt! Its a 100 grit CrystalRing wheel Must be 20 years old Still as plenty on of grind left anyone think it salvageable? suggestions? Ed
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Post by johnjsgems on Apr 12, 2011 14:20:35 GMT -5
Ed, if the spokes are recessed you could probably cut metal or wood discs for each side. Center hole would have to be dead center.
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Post by catmandewe on Apr 13, 2011 1:18:00 GMT -5
I would cut the spoke part out and glue a double thickness plywood center into it. Just cut 2 discs and glue them in, might take some tweaking to get them balanced right though, I have a 5 gal bucket of wheel weights if you need some! Like John said, make sure the hole is dead on.
Tony
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Post by catmandewe on Apr 13, 2011 1:19:55 GMT -5
You know I was just thinking, I would really like to send a Large flat rate box of wheel weights to someone, then they can stop complaining that the boxes of rocks I send are too heavy!
Tony
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Post by mohs on Apr 13, 2011 10:15:04 GMT -5
That's funny Tony ! Tell ya tho..only us rock guy would look forward to a box of weights
and good ideas! another project o boy!
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 13, 2011 11:20:18 GMT -5
You could always melt those weights down, and make weights for the flat lap.
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Apr 13, 2011 23:24:13 GMT -5
Sitnwrap, Thanks for the pictures. The rubber backing on my polishing pad doesn't look that good so I think I'll be getting the acetone out this weekend and do some scraping.
Edmostly, The motor mounts off the back and the belt is tensioned by the weight of the motor. Kind of hard to explain but I'll try to get a picture this weekend. The one good thing about my machine was that the previous owner had just replaced the bearings. Thanks for the pictures of the saw portion. I'm pretty convinced that my machine originally had a 10" saw on the left side. Oh well, I'm pretty happy with having a 8" expando on the left side since I already have a separate 10" Lortone saw for slabbing. Keep up the good work on your machine rebuild.
Justin
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juzwuz
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Post by juzwuz on Apr 13, 2011 23:37:48 GMT -5
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meta99
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Ohio Flint Ridge flint
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Post by meta99 on Apr 14, 2011 5:49:17 GMT -5
Justin,
Not having the 10" saw attached is not necessarily a bad thing. I have an old copy of Lapidary Journal that gives explicit instruction how to REMOVE the saw so it is not always running when you want to cab! Likewise, your wheels aren't spinning when you want to saw! Since you have another saw, you've got that taken care of.
I do not have mine set up with as many wheels as you do...I kept the good med coarse SiC wheel, added two diamond hard wheels and then have the original NONexpanding drum. I use SiC belts on it but then go to my leather pad with cerium...may not be ideal, but working for me so far.
I love that so many people have these old machines so we can tlak about keeping them up! Sue
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