Refurbishing the Boley Leinen lever tailstock (I)

September 4, 2016 in machines and metalworking

The tailstock Some time ago I bought an old series Boley Leinen lever tailstock to be fitted to my lathe. This is the tailstock: It is of the old type because it uses a split casting to lock the barrel as you can see in the picture. Leinen buid two flavors of this tailstock: one with a barrel that takes 363E collets (the 25mm collets) and other that takes the 323E collets (15mm collets).

Boley Leinen collet closer repair

March 23, 2016 in machines and metalworking

Some months ago I bought an old Boley-Leinen collet closer. The gadget is almost complete but: It lacks the supporting bars The ball plungers were broken The collet closer levers were broken The cosmetic was not at its best The collet closer as bought The following picture shows the collet closer assembled as usual: Below, you can see some details of the parts. In the first picture, you can see the closer body.

Klaiber WS2 collets

January 17, 2016 in machines and metalworking

Which are the collets that uses the Klaiber WS2 tool grinder? I found the answer few days ago while looking at ebay.de. A seller was offering a Klaiber grinder.In the machine pictures there was this one: It is a 6mm collet for the klaiber. The picture has the answer!! Klaiber collets are of type 317E. It was a non usual collet size. I have not found any provider offering it. If somebody knows the nominal dimensions for this standard, I will be happy to hear about it ;-).

Looking for these beautiful Leinen tailstocks

August 31, 2015 in machines and metalworking

I was obsessed with those beautiful optional tailstocks built by Leinen that appear in the lathe parts catalog. An intense surveillance in ebay has given some partial results.

A four jaws independent chuck arrived

August 30, 2015 in machines and metalworking

I bought in german ebay a four jaws independent chuck with DIN 55022 number 4 fitting. This was not the kind of independent chuck I prefer for the Leinen lathe. I would prefered those kind of “old” chucks which are lighter than the modern ones. Having found no provider for these lighter chucks, finally I went for this one. The chuck can be seen in this picture: The chuck was in pretty good condition.

Light up the Lathe

February 5, 2014 in machines and metalworking

An old Waldmann WD 306 luminaire is added to the Boley Leinen lathe. The luminaire is nowadays old but it is still a very good design. Can be found at a reasonable price and, after servicing it, make a very good value for money.