Saturday, 24 September 2022

Preparing to refit the enclosure

Right. Let's get this machine ready to refit the enclosure. It's working convincingly enough to make me feel I can risk it. So I'll need to disconnect all the cables and hoses that come up the drag chain from the carriage. They have to be threaded through a hole in the enclosure, so there's no way round it.


I need to fit the blanking plate at the tailstock end first, as it won't be possible with the enclosure in place:


And there's a lot of cleaning to be done. Like all the years of glop on the turret housing. WD40 and a white scouring pad should do the trick.




That's better.





On it goes.


It's held in place by the 2 snap lock hose couplings.


Next, remove all remnants of the crappy mastic stuff under the enclosure.



Carefully note (photograph) the limit switch connections:







And the turret position switch connections.




And the turret solenoid line:






Then remove the hoses for the turret hydraulic flow and return:



There. All disconnected and sort of out of the way:




Let's get this thing lined up and ready to go back on.


Ready for the enclosure....

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