Kondia FV-1 Head disassembly
Today I put the spindle bearings in, taking great care not to balls things up, as they need to go in back-to-back.

Once the spindle was in, I could insert the pinion gear and shaft, the clutch and then the quill feed forward/reverse drive shaft and then the feed gear shaft and the worm gear cradle. All went well until I found out that the pinion shaft is bent Bash

   
   
   
   

Looks like it all has to come back out...
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Good grief! The prior owner sure abused the hell out of that machine.

Ed
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Please don't remind me Ed Ouch
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Hey Darren (and anyone else who can help),

I looked over the print for the quill feed engagement part as I was to start making it yesterday. I found that I need some help with extrapolating some dimensions, but I no longer have a working copy of AutoCad2000 to do it.

What I need is the X-Y coordinate values for the angles coming off the 25mm radius, out to the 60mm width. Kondia clearly used a casting that would have had those dimensions, so we'll have to figure them out. Got any ideas?

Other that that, I've decided to run up to BTS-Patriot Steels in Dover NH to get a couple of pieces of 4142 pre-treated stock to make the part. Of course I only need one piece, but you know Murphy's Law, subchapter C, paragraph 5, "If you have a spare piece of stock you won't need it, it you don't have a spare you WILL need it."
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Hi Ken,

I'm not confident that I have understood your question but I have had a go! I used DraftSight, which is free and easy enough that I can use it!

Attached is my interpretation of the angle you are after. I don't think that I originally posted the Kondia drawing, as I was concerned regarding copyright. However, Kondia have released the drawing to me as they no longer manufacturer these parts, so it may be OK to do so. Ed - what do you think?

In the meantime, if you want to look at the Kondia drawing, please PM me...


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You're on the right track. What I need isn't the angles, but the X-Y axis coordinates for where the 25mm radius stops and the angles start.
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How would I calculate that? What do you want to use as the 0,0 point?
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Dimension from the center of the 25mm radius to the end points of radius where it meets the angles. Using the center of the 25mm radius would be fine. I can shift from there if needed.
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OK - I think I have it:

   
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Perfect! As soon as I can get the better material I can start. So sorry for the delays, it's been a VERY busy time for me.

I had to grind 3 more of those blocks for a friend in a big hurry yesterday because the hardened ones I did last weekend were cracked from poor heat treating. This time he convinced his customer to take them in the annealed condition because it's base for a static gauge, not a high speed working press tool or anything like that.
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