Day 437 of eating this particular elephant, and running low on ketchup. 
Not much today, took the other part of that bit of scrap steel and milled it to shape, then drilled and tapped it all, again.
And, if I might be allowed to toot my own horn here in public without fear of arrest, it fits perfectly.
Loosen the front screws a turn and a half, and she slides right on. Snug the screws back up and it's solid as a rock.
The only drawback- and kind of expected- is the screws are tough to get at. I can reach 'em easily with a ball-end wrench, though what I might do for regular use on this machine, is cut down the short leg of a wrench, to make it easier to tighten them, once they're snugged with the ball-end. A second option is to use a shouldered screw (since they're countersunk holes) with a hex head, and simply use an open-end wrench on them.
Not the slickest setup, but I was pretty limited on what I could fit in there.
The only other thing I did was get out some solvent and scrubbed clean the base pieces for the turret:
The parts themselves are cherry- there's very little sign of wear. But on the other hand, there's also zero adjustment- as in none whatsoever. Theoretically, you could tighten up the dovetail by lightly surface grinding one of those side plates but as for up, down or left and right? None. Nothing at all. (The Warner & Swasey has tapered gibs for left-and-right, and replaceable hardened wear plates for up-and-down.)
I can hope the turret sockets are still closely aligned- and some turret tooling can be adjusted a little for alignment- but that remains to be seen.
Doc.
Not much today, took the other part of that bit of scrap steel and milled it to shape, then drilled and tapped it all, again.
And, if I might be allowed to toot my own horn here in public without fear of arrest, it fits perfectly.
Loosen the front screws a turn and a half, and she slides right on. Snug the screws back up and it's solid as a rock.
The only drawback- and kind of expected- is the screws are tough to get at. I can reach 'em easily with a ball-end wrench, though what I might do for regular use on this machine, is cut down the short leg of a wrench, to make it easier to tighten them, once they're snugged with the ball-end. A second option is to use a shouldered screw (since they're countersunk holes) with a hex head, and simply use an open-end wrench on them.
Not the slickest setup, but I was pretty limited on what I could fit in there.
The only other thing I did was get out some solvent and scrubbed clean the base pieces for the turret:
The parts themselves are cherry- there's very little sign of wear. But on the other hand, there's also zero adjustment- as in none whatsoever. Theoretically, you could tighten up the dovetail by lightly surface grinding one of those side plates but as for up, down or left and right? None. Nothing at all. (The Warner & Swasey has tapered gibs for left-and-right, and replaceable hardened wear plates for up-and-down.)
I can hope the turret sockets are still closely aligned- and some turret tooling can be adjusted a little for alignment- but that remains to be seen.
Doc.
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