Greg Menke
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2004
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
I picked up some MT2 drill chucks and a headstock dead center last weekend, and set up the dead centers point to point, only to discover the points differ in elevation by about 3/32! Yikes. I pulled the headstock and tailstock and very carefully cleaned all the mating surfaces- no luck. The headstock center's point is still about 3/32" higher than the tailstock center's point.
I guess this means something is worn. The bed under the headstock still shows the scraping marks, so I imagine thats OK- so I imagine its a tailstock and/or bed wear issue.
Being a newbie, I'm not quite sure how to test this further. If anyone has any hints wrt diagnostics or what the fix for this might require, they would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregm
I guess this means something is worn. The bed under the headstock still shows the scraping marks, so I imagine thats OK- so I imagine its a tailstock and/or bed wear issue.
Being a newbie, I'm not quite sure how to test this further. If anyone has any hints wrt diagnostics or what the fix for this might require, they would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregm