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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Damaged Emco V13 engine lathe


[UPDATE: I spent 4 days over thanksgiving going over it, fixed just about everything (yea!) other than the bent leadscrew: new handles, replacing snap rings, etc. Given the lathe's location against a wall it's hard to remove the leadscrew from the machine so I can straighten it. Maybe next holiday.]
Photos of a Emco V13 engine lathe I received damaged by shipping on Friday. Looks like someone doesn't know how to handle their forklift.

In the shrink wrap, speed knob, crosslide knob, plexiglass and lateral wheel broken:




Cross slide knob and the broken lateral wheel in the shrink wrap, indicating it occured after packing:


Fresh break: no oil:


You can see where it was rammed: the skirt is bent in, and the two parallel lines give the fingerprint of the object (forklift or was it in a van perhaps and hit the corner of something multiple times?):



Another view:


You can see the pallet is cracked too, giving a rough idea of the scope of the impact:


Broken plexiglass, bent rod holding it:


Unwrapped view:


Closer of the cross slide --- a very disturbing thing is that the knob was impacted so heavily that it dented the covering. This could be very bad: this controlls movement of the cross slide to the .001" of an inch --- hitting it very hard could easily ruin the mechanism:


This is the known most serious damage: the rod that drives the powerfeed and threading has been severely bent. It's harder to see in photo than in real life, but I drew a line of the top and then turned it by hand, the gap gives a feel for the bend:


Top:


Rotated to low point:


I don't know if this can be replaced. As far as I know they don't make this lathe anymore, and the last known US distributor for emco parts does not have this model listed (I've sent email).

Here's another rod which seems to be ripped from the housing. It seems to be a guide rod of some sort for the carrage:







I'm worried about getting this fixed: the obvious google searches don't seem to turn up spare parts, and I doubt anyone local works on these lathes. Not the best night for machining.

1 comment:

  1. vaya calidad de transporte, ha destrozado media maquina

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