Comments on: How to Cut Your Machine in Half in a LeBlond Regal Restoration https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/ LeBlond and K.O. Lee Products & OEM Parts for Johnson Press, Deka Drill , Standard Modern and W.F. & John Barnes Machinery. Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 By: Michael Barnes https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-84154 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-84154 In reply to Linda Morris.

Thanks Linda!

]]> By: Linda Morris https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-84123 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 03:03:08 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-84123 This is really inspiring. Nice to see these machines kept and cared fot

]]> By: Michael B Patnode https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-78632 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:57:54 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-78632 Hello all,
I would like to add that another big benefit of the restoration was the oiler plunger on the apron works great now that all of the oil journals are cleaned. Brass and bronze chips were like dirt clods in the saddle. The tailstock journals were packed with chips up to where the gits cups were at one time. What a pleasure to run this machine and have the lube system working. I don’t have way oil constantly dripping off the ways and down the side of the bed into the pan.

]]> By: Michael B Patnode https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-78631 Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:45:51 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-78631 In reply to Tim Runion.

Thank you Tim! I have a 9″x 16″ horizontal bandsaw with a 1″ blade and it was about 3″ too small so I set the bed on a car trailer and drove over to BBC Steel in Canby Oregon and they cut it on a big horizontal bandsaw with a 2′ bi-metal blade. They were a bit worried about cutting the bed. I told them no worries it’s high quality cast iron and will cut like butter. You guy’s know how good quality (no hard spots) cast iron cuts. They took my word for it and let er rip. They all were grinning as the cut was being made and I was happy to get a cut with in about .008

]]> By: Michael Barnes https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-78620 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:46:29 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-78620 In reply to Gregg Eshelman.

Thanks Gregg. The ingenuity of a machinist on a mission knows no bounds! As a note, LeBlond has OEM parts for all our lathes, some dating all the way back to the WW2 era. If anyone out there needs parts, let us know!

]]> By: Gregg Eshelman https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-78618 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:37:13 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-78618 When I didn’t need a 17×70″ Regal “trainer model” made during WW2, I found the missing parts needed to fix it, and bought an ACME tap to make a new cross slide nut. Then I found someone with a need for a really long lathe and sold it to him. Far as I know it’s somewhere in southern Idaho being used to work on bulldozer axle shafts.

]]> By: Tim Runion https://leblondusa.com/how-to-cut-your-machine-in-half-in-a-leblond-regal-restoration/#comment-78612 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:36:34 +0000 https://leblondusa.com/?p=3345#comment-78612 I have been a machinist for 43 years the last 20 years I have rebuilt machine tools I have never thought of any one sawing the bed off. I would of thought finding a saw large enough to fit the bed in would of been the hardest thing to do. Great job.

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