Trevanion
Plastic
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2020
Hello there gentlemen,
Thank you for letting me join the forum, I've often read things from this forum but I've never joined until now. I'm from the UK, the West Wales region, bandit country . I'm a joiner/wood machinist by occupation so I don't know a hell of a lot about metalworking, I do enjoy making dead woodworking machines come alive again and that usually involves a little metalwork.
I've got a CVA MK1A lathe (I've had it about four years now) which is similar to the Monarch 10EE you have in the states and I've got a small problem with the cross slide in that it has been getting progressively more crunchy when the handle was being turned so I decided to take it apart which was a bit of a palaver, I got to the pinion gear which seems to be where the noise and feeling is coming from, it sits inside a bore and meshes with another larger gear a hole into the apron. At some point, somebody has put three o-rings on the rear of the pinion and looking at the parts manual I think there should be what's called a "felt retaining washer" and a "felt washer" on there and no more information beyond that.
So my question to anyone who knows, what is the difference between a "felt retaining washer" and a "felt washer"? Also, what kind of felt do you reckon is best for this kind of thing? Or is there a much better alternative I should consider? Maybe o-rings ARE the better alternative?
Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the part, I reassembled the carriage without thinking about taking a photo of it. I'll probably take it back apart at the weekend to measure up the part and I'll take a photo of it then.
Here's a picture of the lathe, for what it's worth.
Thank you for letting me join the forum, I've often read things from this forum but I've never joined until now. I'm from the UK, the West Wales region, bandit country . I'm a joiner/wood machinist by occupation so I don't know a hell of a lot about metalworking, I do enjoy making dead woodworking machines come alive again and that usually involves a little metalwork.
I've got a CVA MK1A lathe (I've had it about four years now) which is similar to the Monarch 10EE you have in the states and I've got a small problem with the cross slide in that it has been getting progressively more crunchy when the handle was being turned so I decided to take it apart which was a bit of a palaver, I got to the pinion gear which seems to be where the noise and feeling is coming from, it sits inside a bore and meshes with another larger gear a hole into the apron. At some point, somebody has put three o-rings on the rear of the pinion and looking at the parts manual I think there should be what's called a "felt retaining washer" and a "felt washer" on there and no more information beyond that.
So my question to anyone who knows, what is the difference between a "felt retaining washer" and a "felt washer"? Also, what kind of felt do you reckon is best for this kind of thing? Or is there a much better alternative I should consider? Maybe o-rings ARE the better alternative?
Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of the part, I reassembled the carriage without thinking about taking a photo of it. I'll probably take it back apart at the weekend to measure up the part and I'll take a photo of it then.
Here's a picture of the lathe, for what it's worth.