Montgomery Wards Logan Refurb

[jabberwoki]

Measure twice drill once!!!
Wish i adhered to this...lol

[Uncle Buck]

You really made out on your accessory score. Added a lot of value to the machine with that purchase too!

[bmwrd0]

And I just sold the chuck for more than I paid for everything. It would have been oversized for this lathe, and I already have a four-jaw, so happy to move it along to someone in need.

[bmwrd0]

And the lathe bed is on the table!


And now I have my work cut out for me cleaning this thing. Man is it dirty, along with being covered in the cheap paint that everything else is.


There is surprisingly little damage to the ways, considering it is 80+ years old, and has been sitting in a barn for who knows how long, just a little damage under where the chuck sits. Not too unexpected, and shouldn't affect operations with it.

[bmwrd0]

Now I get to scrape the old paint off of this:








After a while I was sick of scraping, so I did a little test fitting

The belt is a 3L, and it needs a 4L, also the motor pulley isn't here yet, but that is on its way. But now I know how far from the wall it can sit and so on. One more step closer!

[goodfellow]

Great work! You patience and attention to detail will make this thing not only visually attractive, but also function in top-notch form.

[bmwrd0]

Starting to work on the carriage.

I was hoping to have a 7/8-14 tap to clean up some of the threads, but no. I did have an 1/2"NPT tap with 14tpi and that did most of the work needed.



Lead screw back on, and everything works well, except the apron. Because when you buy a pile of parts, you don't know what you are missing until you needed it. And I was missing the front gib and carriage lock. So, while I am waiting on those to show up, I got as much else as I can working. Took a while for the cross slide gibs, as they were pretty beat up, but they work. I might have to pull out the unimat and make my own. We will see.

While I wait on parts, I will get the banjo cleaned up.

[bmwrd0]

Getting close now.

I decided to put some drawers on the wooden base


That should give me a great spot to keep tool bits, boring bars and what not organize and at hand. The wooden boxes sitting on the shelf are reamer cases I found, and work great.



It seems modern filister head screws are a little thicker than they used to be, and I will have to use cap screws until I can trim the head down abit.


using some scrap I had around the shop, I made up a mount for the drum switch. Not too happy with it right now, but it gives me something to work from, and shows my idea worked.


Headstock on, now I am deciding on how I want to run the wiring. The toggle switch on the front is the original reversing switch, which isn't to my taste. I will use it as a lamp switch, and run the motor off of the drum switch.


And the wiring starts

[goodfellow]

Great Christmas post -- love to see old iron get restored and used. Thanks for taking the time to put up the pics.