NAKAMURA TOME WT-300 REBUILD PART 14

What’s up, everyone? Just an update on our machine rebuild. We got the bed back and fitted one of the slides—this is the upper X-axis. We did a rub and glued the Turcite, but we weren’t happy with how the Turcite turned out this morning. It had some lines in it, so we pulled it all down to redo it. We’re still working on it, though. Everything that needed grinding is done, all the surfaces are ground.

We didn’t grind the headstock because we wanted to keep it true, and we’ll scrape that in ourselves. You’ll see some lines here, but don’t worry about them—they’re from the way covers hitting it, and they don’t affect performance. Up here, there are no riding marks or anything like that. We’re going to stone everything down and reassemble it all once it’s done.

The X-axis was sorted out first, and I can show you over here. This is the first slide. Like I said, we didn’t like how the Turcite came out—it had lines we didn’t notice when we glued it, and that’s not acceptable for us, so we pulled it out. But we were able to set the master on this one, so that’s already figured out. We’ll reglue this on Monday and then keep building this thing.

You can see there are no scrape marks here. We haven’t fitted it yet, but we got it pretty close when we glued it, using indicators and such. I’ll give you more updates now that we have the bed back. It’s all leveled, and the X-axis is first. Then we’ll move down the line with these components and start building the machine as discussed.

We’re going to push this as fast as we can without rushing our process, because scraping takes time. We’ll probably give you a call and another video on Tuesday. Today’s Friday, and that’s the plan. Stay tuned—we’ll have a lot more videos. The cool thing is, since we have the base out of the machine, we’ll set up all the indicators. With drills, we’ll be able to move the axis and show you how this thing moves around, so to speak, with indicators and test bars on each one.

For the X-axis, we’ll have a test bar here to indicate the side and the top, and that slide will continue to the sub-spindle. We’ll make sure it’s zeroed on the top and side, and vice versa. For the lower axis, we’ll do the same thing. It’ll be cool to show that kind of video so you can see how this thing performs. Once it’s all said and done, we’ve got to sneak it in there somehow. We probably won’t show a video of that—it might involve a lot of swearing!

But we’ll keep you in the loop. Stay tuned for another video, probably Tuesday or Wednesday, with more slides getting done and scraped in. Thanks for watching!