Elliot 10M shaper.

[alan smith 6Participant @alansmith6]

I bought a 10M on fleabay several years ago, it had been standing in the open for some time. I just got round to stripping down all the slideways, cleaning them and reassemblig ready for commissioning.

The only thing that I can't do is to remove the slideway boss from the front of the ram.It seems to be solid with the ram.

I tried to remove what seems like a wedge assembly to clamp the rotation of the boss and slide but this has no effect.

Does anyone have a diagram or can explain to me how it works so that I can use the minimum force to free the parts.

Alan

PS. I'm missing the cranked lever used to operate the slideways ( where do they all go?). If anyone has a spare or knows where there is one, please let me know.

Edited By alan smith 6 on 04/10/2012 11:06:30

[alan smith 6Participant @alansmith6]

How does one remove the slideway boss from the front of the ram.

[alan smith 6Participant @alansmith6]

I had to find out myself how to do the removal of the slideway boss. One kind person offered to copy the relevant page of the instruction manual but it was too late the problem was solved.

The ram was on my bench so I lifted it into a vertical position and sprayed a lot of WD40 into the depression made by the ram and the boss pivot, this was about 1/8 of an inch. two days later the depression was empty, a good sign.

I reassembled the ram in the machine as this was the safest way to carry out the work. I had found an instruction manual which I had bought at the time of the purchase of the shaper. The instruction for loosening the cam was to rotatate the square shank clockwise, which I did and I also removed the retaining screw for the cam and the locking screw for the boss, which are side by side. Pouring large quantities of WD40 into the holes. The cam was loose in it's bore but light tapping with a rubber hammer had no effect.

Then with my designers cap on it bacame obvious to me that the cam would be free to be withdrawn if the slideway was turned through 180 degrees. After a lot of rubber hammering, the slideway was now in the wrong position and upon tapping the cam it came out like a dream.

A lot more tapping and wrenching from side to side and the boss was free. The clamp operates in in the semi circular groove in the boss and in the safest position (180 degrees from normal) there is a small rebate in in this groove which allows withdrawal of the cam and that is how they designed it.

Alan

 

Edited By alan smith 6 on 13/10/2012 22:12:07

Edited By alan smith 6 on 13/10/2012 22:13:10

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