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.

[bmwrd0]

I've spent the last month or so getting the motor situation all sorted out to my liking, as I was thinking about using an instant reverse motor. In the end I couldn't find 14/5 wire, and I didn't want to go with 16 gauge for running it on 120vac. I also had to make my own wiring diagram, as no one seems to use one of those motor with a drum switch anymore. No real problem if you understand what a drum switch does, and how it works in relation to a fractional motor, but it didn't go anywhere. But, I did get the to clearing the space it is going to sit against the wall:





Trying to find space for all of the misc. machining bits and bobs that fill two machinist chests, two risers, and assorted other drawers and cabinets is no quick job. That has taken me a month or so of random time where I didn't have some other project going. But the remains of the desk are in the back of my truck waiting to go to the scrap yard, along with some other junk that is out in the far shed.

Next is getting a power strip up in that part of the shop, moving every other piece of equipment around, and then getting the lathe in place. At that point I can start the finishing touches, because there is always something on an old lathe to fix. 

[Uncle Buck]

I can relate to this battle. Clean a bench or spot off, move to another bench and shuffle everything over to the bench you just cleaned as you work on the second bench. Does that sound about right?

[bmwrd0]

Indeed, UB. My shop is so small, I don't have any other way of doing things.