Help with lathe....

DiamondDave

DiamondDave

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I have a Porper model A lathe (the older one). The bearings are getting noisy and the chuck doesn't really spin smoothly anymore so Ferrule work is getting tricky to do. I called Joe but all he wanted to do was sell me a new Model B. If I had that money I'd be a Deluxe Cuesmith, but I don't have the money right now. Is there anything you guys can suggest to help me out. I am hoping to keep the lathe to use as a repair lathe down the road so is there any way to rebuild or refurbish it at a decent price?

I appreciate any input.

Thanks
Dave
 
DiamondDave said:
I have a Porper model A lathe (the older one). The bearings are getting noisy and the chuck doesn't really spin smoothly anymore so Ferrule work is getting tricky to do. I called Joe but all he wanted to do was sell me a new Model B. If I had that money I'd be a Deluxe Cuesmith, but I don't have the money right now. Is there anything you guys can suggest to help me out. I am hoping to keep the lathe to use as a repair lathe down the road so is there any way to rebuild or refurbish it at a decent price?

I appreciate any input.

Thanks
Dave
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I don't have a Porper but I'm sure it doesn't have any custom bearings. Just pull it apart, clean real good and replace any bearings that are worn. All tooling need to be dismantled, cleaned and tuned up every so often.

Dick
 
I don't have a porper either, but just to add to what has already been mentioned- If they are standard, some good quality bearings have tiny #'s engraved on the side of them. Possible that If the bearings have these #'s that You may could run a search using them, and find the ones that you need.

Good luck with it,

Greg
 
I just sold my model A that was converted to a B super low serial # but anyways my bearings were going again everything else was flaexing to much or just straight wornout. Sold it for more then i had into it...

Search the forum there were a couple of guys that rebuilt their's with high end bearing's and a couple with low end bearings . They both noticed no real improvement with good or better bearing's. search for it probably 6 months ago roughly.

best of luck,
Craig
 
You should be able also to match them dimensionally without much problem. Try MSC or McMaster-Carr. I would have thought that Porper would have given you the information or sold you the bearings. A friend redid his B model but also had to knurl the spindle to get a better fit in the bearings.

Good Luck
 
repair

It is always a good idea to know how your equipment comes apart. Often you can see not only the worn part, but the cause of the wear. McMaster-Carr has their entire catalog on line. Alignments and tolerances can be checked and verified. The gearing in my lathe locked up and I thought I was stuck until I pulled it apart. It was a few simple silicon bronze bearings that took me about 10 min. to fabricate (3 hrs. to assemble and re-assemble twice until correct!:eek: ). When I was done, my lathe worked like new. I was wondering why I hadn't done this sooner. I was intimidated by my lathe! Don't let that happen to you. Perhaps Joe can send you the chuck/drive assembly diagram to help. Good luck, Kent;)
 
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