Stronghold
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2015
- Location
- Jefferson City, MO
This is probably going to be a dumb question, but how easy should you be able to rotate the spindle cone by hand? All of my experience with lathes have been with modern foreign machines. On those, I could easily rotate the spindles by hand, but I cannot with my new (to me) Heavy 10. When I got the SB it was already broken down and in mid clean up, so I don't know how it was prior. I cleaned everything else up and put it all back together according to the restoration manual that came with the lathe. I'm still waiting on my VFD and would like to fix this (if needed) before it gets here.
When the lathe is in neutral with no belt tension, I can move it by hand but it's not very easy. When the lathe is in forward or reverse and no belt tension, it gets even harder to move. If the machine is in forward or reverse, no belt tension, and the quick change gear box is engaged in any configuration the spindle will wiggle back and forth a little but can't be rotated by hand.
I can only assume that this isn't normal as I watch videos of people using their machines on Youtube and they constantly move them by hand to rotate the chuck. I oiled each part individually during reassembly and then filled all oil reservoirs as directed. I also replaced pretty much every bearing that felt even slightly sticky with new ones.
When the lathe is in neutral with no belt tension, I can move it by hand but it's not very easy. When the lathe is in forward or reverse and no belt tension, it gets even harder to move. If the machine is in forward or reverse, no belt tension, and the quick change gear box is engaged in any configuration the spindle will wiggle back and forth a little but can't be rotated by hand.
I can only assume that this isn't normal as I watch videos of people using their machines on Youtube and they constantly move them by hand to rotate the chuck. I oiled each part individually during reassembly and then filled all oil reservoirs as directed. I also replaced pretty much every bearing that felt even slightly sticky with new ones.