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[swizz]

This machine kinda just fell into my 'lap' recently.
Lortone LU6X, combo unit.... older model I believe
I have many questions as I know little about lapidary.
It has a small trim saw and two vertical wheels. The large wheel is dual purpose... the side has a leather or leather-like pad for polishing, flap-lap style (except the leather disc/pad is vertical).
The wheels are worn and may or may not need replacement.
What kinda projects can I expect to tackle with this unit? Thanks.

[CP]

Cool unit Swizz. Yep shouldn't be hard to replace wheels and belts as needed and or upgrade to diamond carbide for rough in the future. I'm wondering if that belt has slipped over to the right and actually would normally ride with more of a gap between the prepolish and polish?

For the coolant system and tray the plug maybe used to hold water in the tray during saw blade opertaion? That is if the trays share water between the sections.
Then for shaping the rough grind and working to polish I'd bet the idea was to let the tray drain constantly and keep fresh clean water drips feeding.....that would keep cross contaminants to a minumum from one stage to the next where recircing during that time would be frustrating with all the rough material grindings getting mixed into a coolant feed such as a bubbler in the tray.
Ours uses the bubblers and keeps the water in the tray but also has the rough side seperated from the polish side so there is no cross contaminants from rough to finishing.

Gravity feed drippers should work for the fresh feed set up, possibly something similar to the drip bottle set up on the drip pan dremel set up maybe?

On the saw blade side you may want to add a plastic splash gaurd on the front of the table as well as use the blade cover you have....that will keep some more of the splashing down from the blade for using indoors. Old tupperware lids do well for this or similar, we just used a square shaped lid cut in half with a small tab left and bent over to clip it on the table front.

CP

[swizz]

For the coolant system and tray the plug maybe used to hold water in the tray during saw blade opertaion? That is if the trays share water between the sections.

Yes, the coolant reservoirs are separated by a metal partition wall. The wall also has a rubber plug and I can combine the two reservoirs if desired by removing the plug. I know that different types of blades and wheels sometimes require different types of coolant so this is probably the reasoning behind that design.
I like the Tupperware lid idea!!
Thanks Dan!