Ward Capstan Lathes Ward 1A Rebuild - Page 4
The saga continues....
Shot of the turret top slide with the turret removed and the sheet steel plate removed from
over the indexing lock mechanism.
The turret pivot pin has a bit of swarf rubbing wear where the stock
clearance hole passes through, but is generally in pretty
good condition for a 48-year old! The rotating
turret travel stops are at the far end, with their driving bevel gear just behind the
turret pivot pin. All bearing surfaces are plain steel, nothing is mounted on bearings.
Picture of the turret, looking a bit out of place without the top slide etc. The bevel gear drives the travel stops shafting.
The six machined
faces take standard tooling which was also able to be fitted to some Herbert machines.The six-lobed drive
sprocket underneath takes
the push from the sprung latch which is shown below. The rectangular orifices are used to lock
the turret in position before it is
advanced up to the work for a cut. The rectangular locking bar and spring are shown below
in more detail.
Every picture tells a story... The two springs were fitted onto the upper of the two shafts shown, after the thicker one broke at some point in time.
the top rectangular bar is the turret locking bar which is released by a cam engaging underneath (seen on the picture of the complete slide on
another page)
The lower steel bar is the adjustable gib strip for the locking bar. All the parts are stamped with the assembly number, in this case No12
To the right of the screw
head in the right upper part of the picture is the brighter end of a new dowel to locate the upper slide rack which is
underneath the top slide. The number of
chewed-up screw heads is indicative of a lot of maintenance work, while the machine itself appears to
be in quite fair condition..
Top view of the turret slide showing the full length of the turret locking bar and gib strip.
Close up of the locking bar end which engages with the turret body.
Drive latch for the turret. The plunger releases the latch and enables the turret to be rotated manually.
The rounded end engages with the six-lobed drive wheel shown under the turret above.
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