long chang machinery mill
i have found a mill for sale locally and it sounds like a good deal, but i have never heard of the comany b4. i was hoping someone on here would know information about the machine or where to find some because i cant find any at all.
long chang machinery co ltd
drilling milling machine
type lc-30a
mfg # 48462
drilling capacity 1 1/4
spindle feed travel 5"
thats what it said on the machine, and thats all i really know.
i was talking to a guy at the machine shop that shares the same builing as my work and he said the owner would sell it to me for about 500. they dont use it anymore and need more space. he said it is an older machine and still in pretty good shape. the thing is about 6 and a half feet tall if that help at all also.
any info at all would help
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Hi,
Just purchases a Long Chang LC30A, like the one pictured. I cannot get the quill wheel to engage (the small one on the front for machining). I simply see no way of engaging it. Any help would be appreciated.
cheers
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it's on a slide .. in and out on a spline .. one way is free, other is active
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Hmmm... Maybe it's ceased. I'm a little reluctant to persuade it too harshly. I'll play with it more tomorrow. Thanks a million. BTW, I'm in Edmonton.
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Hey vladdy,
I've worked on this, but I can't get anything to move in an out. Do you have a picture of what it looks like when it has been slid on the splines, so I can see what I'm hoping to achieve?
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I've just 'inherited' one of these. I'm renting space in a shop, and there's one in the shop that was used for a single setup in the old owner's production.
The head handle (handle for the vertical head movement, the big crank that engages a rack on the column, not the quill) moves half a turn, which I assume is the gear lash, and can't be turned further. Is there something I need to loosen?
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Originally Posted by
lightningpower
Eureka! I've got it.
Could you elaborate on what you did?
I've just acquired an LC-30A, and I am also struggling to figure out how to engage the fine feed.....
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Originally Posted by
wazza187
Could you elaborate on what you did?
I've just acquired an LC-30A, and I am also struggling to figure out how to engage the fine feed.....
Vertically? The quill can be fed with the large control on side with a hub and multiple spokes, each with a ball, on right side
The gross height adjustment is to loosen the two bolts that run through the unit right to left, to nuts, just behind the column, and crank up and down with the crank on left
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the side handle that moves the entire head up and down drives on the the vertical rack, you have to loosen the two? clamp bolts that squeeze the head tight onto the round vertical column .... the fine feed is actuated by a sliding splined collar just to the inside of the side [coarse] feed wheel, moves in and out ...
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Hey, thanks for the manual, both to you and to Long Chang! (group)(group)