Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and motors
in various states of disrepair.

ATP* wrote:

Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and motors
in various states of disrepair.



If you give up, I've got an entire Bridgeport 1J head sitting idle. - GWE

Grant Erwin wrote:
ATP* wrote:

Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway. After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm
going to try and put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out
of 4 heads and motors in various states of disrepair.


If you give up, I've got an entire Bridgeport 1J head sitting idle. - GWE

exactly

visions of learning to swear in Chinese...

Wahts your asking price Grant? Where are you located?

"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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ATP* wrote:

Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway. After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm
going to try and put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of
4 heads and motors in various states of disrepair.

If you give up, I've got an entire Bridgeport 1J head sitting idle. - GWE

JB wrote:
Wahts your asking price Grant? Where are you located?

"Grant Erwin"
If you give up, I've got an entire Bridgeport 1J head sitting idle. - GWE

$600 obo, in a suburb outside of Seattle, Washington.
To email me offline, see http://www.tinyisland.com/email.html

GWE

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Grant Erwin wrote:
ATP* wrote:

Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway. After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm
going to try and put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of
4 heads and motors in various states of disrepair.


If you give up, I've got an entire Bridgeport 1J head sitting idle. - GWE

exactly

visions of learning to swear in Chinese...

I can see that day coming. I think I might be able to learn something
working on the heads. They are mostly intact, with the exception of the
vari-speed sheave setup, which I hope to convert to a fixed drive controlled
by a VFD.

ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J head,
minus the motor.

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ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J head,
minus the motor.

I'll take the measurements. I believe they are 3 HP motors. The shaft is
very close to 30 mm in diameter with considerable wear. I am going to try
and fix the sheaves in position, I think there is too much wear to use the
floating sheave/vari-speed setup.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:59:34 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


wrote in message
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ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J head,
minus the motor.

I'll take the measurements. I believe they are 3 HP motors. The shaft is
very close to 30 mm in diameter with considerable wear. I am going to try
and fix the sheaves in position, I think there is too much wear to use the
floating sheave/vari-speed setup.


You can pull the rotor, turn the shaft, and sweat on a sleeve, or have
it flame sprayed and built back up. This is pretty typical when the
user started hearing noise and ignored it for a long time.

One often finds the motor shaft keyway blown out badly. In which case
you clean it up, and turn the shaft 180 degrees and put in a new
keyway. The pulleys will be blown out inside as well, so they will
need to be bored and bushed

Gunner

Rule #35
"That which does not kill you,
has made a huge tactical error"

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:59:34 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


wrote in message
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ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J head,
minus the motor.

I'll take the measurements. I believe they are 3 HP motors. The shaft is
very close to 30 mm in diameter with considerable wear. I am going to try
and fix the sheaves in position, I think there is too much wear to use the
floating sheave/vari-speed setup.


You can pull the rotor, turn the shaft, and sweat on a sleeve, or have
it flame sprayed and built back up. This is pretty typical when the
user started hearing noise and ignored it for a long time.

One often finds the motor shaft keyway blown out badly. In which case
you clean it up, and turn the shaft 180 degrees and put in a new
keyway. The pulleys will be blown out inside as well, so they will
need to be bored and bushed

Gunner

Unfortunately I don't have the moving pulley or the spring. If I pull the
rotor, is it something I can easily chuck in a six-inch three jaw chuck on a
South Bend Heavy 10, or do I need some kind of special soft jawed armature
holding device?

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:20:23 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:59:34 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


wrote in message
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ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J head,
minus the motor.

I'll take the measurements. I believe they are 3 HP motors. The shaft is
very close to 30 mm in diameter with considerable wear. I am going to try
and fix the sheaves in position, I think there is too much wear to use the
floating sheave/vari-speed setup.


You can pull the rotor, turn the shaft, and sweat on a sleeve, or have
it flame sprayed and built back up. This is pretty typical when the
user started hearing noise and ignored it for a long time.

One often finds the motor shaft keyway blown out badly. In which case
you clean it up, and turn the shaft 180 degrees and put in a new
keyway. The pulleys will be blown out inside as well, so they will
need to be bored and bushed

Gunner

Unfortunately I don't have the moving pulley or the spring. If I pull the
rotor, is it something I can easily chuck in a six-inch three jaw chuck on a
South Bend Heavy 10, or do I need some kind of special soft jawed armature
holding device?

You should..should.. be able to hold the off end with the chuck,
though a collet would be better. The rotors are not that big. Of
course Id use either a very very good live center or a decent dead
center in the end of the motor shaft. Its likely to be threaded in its
ID btw,..some were some were not.

You want to put it back in order? I may have access to the spring, and
moving pulley half. I know for sure I have the pully half, but its
badly blown out and will need to be bored and sleeved.

Gunner

Rule #35
"That which does not kill you,
has made a huge tactical error"

"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:20:23 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:59:34 -0500, "ATP*" wrote:


wrote in message
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ATP* wrote:
Just brought home a headless Bridgeport, it's on my trailer in the
driveway.
After I clear enough of a path to get it into the shop, I'm going to
try and
put together a working Vari-Speed Chiwanese head out of 4 heads and
motors
in various states of disrepair.


I'm a bit late getting in on this thread. After you are done, I might
be interested in buying an extra Chiwanese motor off of you if the
motor has a long shaft that I can mount a B'port variable pulley to
(don't remember the B'port motor shaft diameter off hand although I
could aways turn a bushing if the shaft is undersize). I have been
searching on E-bay and the B'port 2 hp motors are a bit too pricey for
me. I think I have all the parts to complete the assembly of a 2J
head,
minus the motor.

I'll take the measurements. I believe they are 3 HP motors. The shaft is
very close to 30 mm in diameter with considerable wear. I am going to
try
and fix the sheaves in position, I think there is too much wear to use
the
floating sheave/vari-speed setup.


You can pull the rotor, turn the shaft, and sweat on a sleeve, or have
it flame sprayed and built back up. This is pretty typical when the
user started hearing noise and ignored it for a long time.

One often finds the motor shaft keyway blown out badly. In which case
you clean it up, and turn the shaft 180 degrees and put in a new
keyway. The pulleys will be blown out inside as well, so they will
need to be bored and bushed

Gunner

Unfortunately I don't have the moving pulley or the spring. If I pull the
rotor, is it something I can easily chuck in a six-inch three jaw chuck on
a
South Bend Heavy 10, or do I need some kind of special soft jawed armature
holding device?

You should..should.. be able to hold the off end with the chuck,
though a collet would be better. The rotors are not that big. Of
course Id use either a very very good live center or a decent dead
center in the end of the motor shaft. Its likely to be threaded in its
ID btw,..some were some were not.

You want to put it back in order? I may have access to the spring, and
moving pulley half. I know for sure I have the pully half, but its
badly blown out and will need to be bored and sleeved.

Gunner

I would like to put it back in order. I'll send you an email.