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Well, i moved into my shop a couple months back, and have been organizing the space and items i have since before i had a stable place, everything was just thrown into a storage unit. Along with those items, was a surface grinder that i picked up for nothing, while I was picking up a pantograph in California at the end of last year. During this shuffle, i figured now was as good of a time as any, to figure out if i picked up a big paperweight, or if I scored something worth putting some love into.
Here's the before, you can see the pantograph on the right, still sitting on it's dolly waiting for the same treatment.
And here is the after! I saw a video of it running before going to pick it up, and the price was worth the gamble of it being worthless (the motor was worth more than the asking price). Since it had been sitting, the shuffle started with moving the Atom Clicker press into place, and getting the three phase transformer wired up. I threw a plug onto the surface grinder, and confirmed the spindle and motor still ran without issues, great news, i at least purchased a working 3 phase motor, attached to a spindle that was humming along silently. During the trip home, i ended up getting caught in a couple passing storms. I managed to pull over and tarp everything, but was pretty upset with the circumstances (sleeping in the truck the day prior after working 12 hours probably didn't help my ability to take one on the chin). The good news was that this machine had grease pumped into every sliding surface, except the column, so it virtually protected every critical surface. The bad news was though that it had grease pumped into every single sliding surface except the column. I tore everything down, and began the hours long process of degreasing ancient piles of seized grease from the entire machine. CRC makes a heavy duty degreaser that i can't get locally that does an amazing job, but at $20 bucks a pop, i wanted an alternative. Super Clean from Harbor Freight & Ace Hardware does the same thing, at 1/3 the cost. At the end of the day though, i completely understand why people pressure wash these things off as a first step. Might look to get a mobile parts washer for the mill / pantograph jobs, but i don't plan to take either of those as far as i took this (and hopefully will do knife stuff in-between this and those jobs as it's been far to long). No evaluation of accuracy, as i'm planning on converting it over to belts, so that's the next step, but i'm missing two key items. The extractor piece, so i can pull the mount, and clean the interfacing surfaces, and the front nut that will hold the wheel on. Any suppliers or sources on either an aluminum wheel or 90 duro serrated wheel for this, would be appreciated.
Snip of the motor nameplate that still has the plastic on it, wish i noticed before hitting it with some WD40. The machine is one of the first that Kent produced, because the updated manual for the KGS200 is not the machine i have in my shop. Multiple differences, which i'm assuming were updates to my model year, but awesome to see it's the original 1979 motor...
Here's the before, you can see the pantograph on the right, still sitting on it's dolly waiting for the same treatment.
And here is the after! I saw a video of it running before going to pick it up, and the price was worth the gamble of it being worthless (the motor was worth more than the asking price). Since it had been sitting, the shuffle started with moving the Atom Clicker press into place, and getting the three phase transformer wired up. I threw a plug onto the surface grinder, and confirmed the spindle and motor still ran without issues, great news, i at least purchased a working 3 phase motor, attached to a spindle that was humming along silently. During the trip home, i ended up getting caught in a couple passing storms. I managed to pull over and tarp everything, but was pretty upset with the circumstances (sleeping in the truck the day prior after working 12 hours probably didn't help my ability to take one on the chin). The good news was that this machine had grease pumped into every sliding surface, except the column, so it virtually protected every critical surface. The bad news was though that it had grease pumped into every single sliding surface except the column. I tore everything down, and began the hours long process of degreasing ancient piles of seized grease from the entire machine. CRC makes a heavy duty degreaser that i can't get locally that does an amazing job, but at $20 bucks a pop, i wanted an alternative. Super Clean from Harbor Freight & Ace Hardware does the same thing, at 1/3 the cost. At the end of the day though, i completely understand why people pressure wash these things off as a first step. Might look to get a mobile parts washer for the mill / pantograph jobs, but i don't plan to take either of those as far as i took this (and hopefully will do knife stuff in-between this and those jobs as it's been far to long). No evaluation of accuracy, as i'm planning on converting it over to belts, so that's the next step, but i'm missing two key items. The extractor piece, so i can pull the mount, and clean the interfacing surfaces, and the front nut that will hold the wheel on. Any suppliers or sources on either an aluminum wheel or 90 duro serrated wheel for this, would be appreciated.
Snip of the motor nameplate that still has the plastic on it, wish i noticed before hitting it with some WD40. The machine is one of the first that Kent produced, because the updated manual for the KGS200 is not the machine i have in my shop. Multiple differences, which i'm assuming were updates to my model year, but awesome to see it's the original 1979 motor...
