RF-30 Mill Drill Restoration - Forme Industrious

This has to be my dirtiest project. Well, in this video I restore a Herless RF-30 Mill Drill. It was gifted to me by a gentleman down in Adelaide, South Australia. I just had to pay for the freight to get it to Townsville. This machine needed a lot of work to bring it back to its former glory, well as near to it as I can. The motor was 415 Volt 3 Phase and I don't have that power in my shed. An option was to install a VFD but those can be expensive for a good one and really I think it would have added unnecessary complexity......ok I'm making excuses....they are just too expensive. I bought a single phase 1.5 KW motor from Ebay with the only issue being the shaft diameter being 24mm and the pulley was 22 mm. I was missing the Spindle Collet (MT3) and Draw bar and one of the Quill handles. The Milling table was badly rusted and pecked. Not a problem to me. Well, now that it is all cleaned up and working I'm very happy with it. Over time I will buy the tooling needed to get the most out of this machine.

Well I hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.

Regards

Scott

Видео RF-30 Mill Drill Restoration - Forme Industrious канала Scott Turner