Lol, we gotta get you a new Camera sir, ten minutes is only a tease. Haha. That looks like one of finest examples of a monarch I’ve ever seen. So clean and smooth, we cared for no doubt. Way better than my newer Spain made Clausing Metosa. But I do enjoy mine. Just admire the ol American Iron machines a lot. Hope you have a great day sir.
These machines are better as an addition to standard machines I found. There are more than a few of them in great condition out there and I would expect the prices to drop as there are fewer people to run them. The Metosa lathes are nice!
Nice trick with the quad ring. When I made the new nut for the cross slide on my little Clausing 100 lathe I drilled the bolt all the way thru and tapped it 1/4 x 20 and put a short button head cap screw in it. I just remove the button head screw and pump oil from an oil can to the lead screw. Like you I use Way oil because it is sticky. I made the nut out of cast iron because that is what it was made of originally and the screw had minimal wear on it. On the Clausing 5913 the cross-slide nut is bronze, and the thread is worn completely out in the center. So I am replacing the screw with 4140 hardened screw and making the new nut out of cast iron. It came from the factory with a ball oiler in the bronze nut, but I guess they never oiled it. Some people just don't care. In my part of the world Oil is GOOD no Oil is Not Good. I think that rule is pretty simple and easy to understand.
I have seen that before cast iron nuts seem to cause less wear, I believe cutting aluminum is harder on a machine then cutting cast iron. A guy came into my hydraulics machine shop and said he couldn't have me machine his nylon because of too much oil everywhere. I said this is a hydraulics shop, its all about oil and plenty of it.
DeeDee. Good to see you. It is a shame Monarch didn’t do a better job of designing the lubrication system. The really like the Bijour oil parts, but I think they need to be paid attention to. I reground my bed because the inside of the “V”, which is really narrow anyway, was worn because of a lack of oil. All good now and running perfectly. Cheers, TB
The Axelson got clogging of the arteries even though the passages are large. The little Bijour metering valves can clog easy. A fellow I worked with heavily manually oiled the ways and I do that too. One aspect of having to take apart and lube that top slide is it is really clean and completely lubricated far better than possible with ball oilers and it takes 5 minutes, this is a machine for artist, Monarch put effort where others had failed miserably in the precision and ease of use. Now Axelson as far as the carriage oil pump may be unmatched for ability to gush oil out of the compound rest and building muscle shifting any of the levers.@@bid6413
I just made a lead screw for a tail stock and replaced the nut with stainless steel (304) I was thinking about making it out of brass or bronze but the original one was mild steel. Or at least the one that was in it was.. someone else may have made it. I think I have a chunk of cast iron, I think I’m going to remake it with that cast iron and see. The new lead screw I made from 4140 so it will probably outlive me. But the nut on the other hand.. I have two more to make for the top slide and cross slide. Might just use cast for those as well. The first ones I made out of aluminum as a trial run are really sticky feeling. They work but you can definitely feel the added drag of the soft aluminum. I bet the cast nuts will glide like butter.
My Clausing has ball oilers already. they are there for a reason, but some people never use them because they are a little difficult sometimes to actually get oil past the ball.
Being OCD as I am, I would remove that Cross Slide and drill and fit some Button Oilers like what are on my Taiwanese copy of a Aussie Hercus 260 Lathe.
The program crashed "again" but I can re load it after a couple of days and that usually works. The devices do not readily communicate with each other, and it can be a maze to get through. The camera image is converted to the editing then put in your computer program then converted to another form that will load onto TH-cam. I have constructing the grinder rest still on a chip, I will try to redo that in a day or two. For reference a 11 min video at lower resolution takes up 3.5 GB right out of the camera the editing program adds to that an average video around 30minutes takes 16 GB then you still have the raw video eating up space. The cloud eats up massive time loading. None of these things really work like they should in my opinion,
Amazes me how often you see a "good" lathe in a workshop somewhere and its filthy dirty, buried in its own chips and obviously only sees an oil can about once a year, usually a machine used by anybody who works there to do simple quick work. Almost impossible to oil a machine tool too much and oil is really cheap versus having to buy or make replacement parts.
Good info on the 10ee, time for me to service my compound….thanks
Hi! Thanks
Lol, we gotta get you a new Camera sir, ten minutes is only a tease. Haha. That looks like one of finest examples of a monarch I’ve ever seen. So clean and smooth, we cared for no doubt. Way better than my newer Spain made Clausing Metosa. But I do enjoy mine. Just admire the ol American Iron machines a lot.
Hope you have a great day sir.
These machines are better as an addition to standard machines I found. There are more than a few of them in great condition out there and I would expect the prices to drop as there are fewer people to run them. The Metosa lathes are nice!
Nice trick with the quad ring. When I made the new nut for the cross slide on my little Clausing 100 lathe I drilled the bolt all the way thru and tapped it 1/4 x 20 and put a short button head cap screw in it. I just remove the button head screw and pump oil from an oil can to the lead screw. Like you I use Way oil because it is sticky. I made the nut out of cast iron because that is what it was made of originally and the screw had minimal wear on it. On the Clausing 5913 the cross-slide nut is bronze, and the thread is worn completely out in the center. So I am replacing the screw with 4140 hardened screw and making the new nut out of cast iron. It came from the factory with a ball oiler in the bronze nut, but I guess they never oiled it. Some people just don't care. In my part of the world Oil is GOOD no Oil is Not Good. I think that rule is pretty simple and easy to understand.
I have seen that before cast iron nuts seem to cause less wear, I believe cutting aluminum is harder on a machine then cutting cast iron.
A guy came into my hydraulics machine shop and said he couldn't have me machine his nylon because of too much oil everywhere. I said this is a hydraulics shop, its all about oil and plenty of it.
love the answer@@deedeeindustrialsuperprecision
DeeDee. Good to see you. It is a shame Monarch didn’t do a better job of designing the lubrication system. The really like the Bijour oil parts, but I think they need to be paid attention to. I reground my bed because the inside of the “V”, which is really narrow anyway, was worn because of a lack of oil. All good now and running perfectly. Cheers, TB
The Axelson got clogging of the arteries even though the passages are large. The little Bijour metering valves can clog easy. A fellow I worked with heavily manually oiled the ways and I do that too. One aspect of having to take apart and lube that top slide is it is really clean and completely lubricated far better than possible with ball oilers and it takes 5 minutes, this is a machine for artist, Monarch put effort where others had failed miserably in the precision and ease of use. Now Axelson as far as the carriage oil pump may be unmatched for ability to gush oil out of the compound rest and building muscle shifting any of the levers.@@bid6413
I just made a lead screw for a tail stock and replaced the nut with stainless steel (304) I was thinking about making it out of brass or bronze but the original one was mild steel. Or at least the one that was in it was.. someone else may have made it. I think I have a chunk of cast iron, I think I’m going to remake it with that cast iron and see. The new lead screw I made from 4140 so it will probably outlive me. But the nut on the other hand.. I have two more to make for the top slide and cross slide. Might just use cast for those as well. The first ones I made out of aluminum as a trial run are really sticky feeling. They work but you can definitely feel the added drag of the soft aluminum. I bet the cast nuts will glide like butter.
Interesting…thanks
You're welcome
*_Didn't know you were in Walla Walla. I'm in SpoCompton._* 😁
Hi, stay warm, looks to be a cold winter here
What harm would it do to drill little oil ports to the ways of the compound and the screw and add ball oilers? Thanks Don
Likely no harm at all but no one would do it
My Clausing has ball oilers already. they are there for a reason, but some people never use them because they are a little difficult sometimes to actually get oil past the ball.
some people find it hard to cut a steak with a sharp knife@@terrycannon570
Being OCD as I am, I would remove that Cross Slide and drill and fit some Button Oilers like what are on my Taiwanese copy of a Aussie Hercus 260 Lathe.
People have talked about doing that
What happened to your editing software Don?
The program crashed "again" but I can re load it after a couple of days and that usually works.
The devices do not readily communicate with each other, and it can be a maze to get through.
The camera image is converted to the editing then put in your computer program then converted to another form that will load onto TH-cam. I have constructing the grinder rest still on a chip, I will try to redo that in a day or two. For reference a 11 min video at lower resolution takes up 3.5 GB right out of the camera the editing program adds to that an average video around 30minutes takes 16 GB then you still have the raw video eating up space. The cloud eats up massive time loading. None of these things really work like they should in my opinion,
Amazes me how often you see a "good" lathe in a workshop somewhere and its filthy dirty, buried in its own chips and obviously only sees an oil can about once a year, usually a machine used by anybody who works there to do simple quick work.
Almost impossible to oil a machine tool too much and oil is really cheap versus having to buy or make replacement parts.
I see that a lot more in the last 20yrs, no one wants to maintain anything.
It's not as nice as mine.
Your dingaling?
lol.