Kondia FV-1 Head disassembly

[Mayhem]

Thanks guys!

Tom - the thread was cut on my friends 10x20 lathe, which doesn't have a thread dial on it, so I kept the half nuts engaged and reversed the motor at the completion of each pass.

Ken - in checking my tooling, I currently have three holders with M12x1.75 (ER32 collet chuck, boring head and MT3 adapter) and three that are 1/2-13 (drill chuck, shoulder mill and face mill).  It turned out that the 1/2-12 tooling was just the homemade stuff that came with the mill (I won't be using any of that).



As you can see, they are colour coded and the two shallow grooves you see on the drawbar will be filled with the corresponding colour, so (in theory) I shouldn't mix them up...

So I screwed using a thrust bearing I take it?  Thrust washers here look the same, although they have rollers instead of balls and I wasn't able to get one with the dimensions I wanted. The Kondia drawing shows something between the drawbar and the top of the spindle drive shaft but doesn't list what it is.

I'll mill the hex on this one and then I can heat it up and separate the two parts (I used loctite as I needed the mill to drill and pin it).