BT Fabrication
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2019
- Location
- Ontario Canada
Slowly Fixing old war era lathe, worn cross slide screw.
well, spent the weekend tearing apart my carrage and cross slide feed to find the nut on the shaft a little weird. someone was in here before and made it oversized 5/8"-8 acme thread. UGH, 0.675" od and 0.125" tooth spacing which had a brass nut that had 0.030 of play to it. So this will be going to another local shop to get fixed at least as I dont have a working lathe to use or the tooling to do it in. Hopefully the bill doesn't hurt too bad, will probably have it made from bearing bronze instead of the brass they used.
also found hammer marks all over the turret mount that they used and wedged into the cross feed top ffs..... hopefully the previous idiot that owned it didn't weld it all in.
well, spent the weekend tearing apart my carrage and cross slide feed to find the nut on the shaft a little weird. someone was in here before and made it oversized 5/8"-8 acme thread. UGH, 0.675" od and 0.125" tooth spacing which had a brass nut that had 0.030 of play to it. So this will be going to another local shop to get fixed at least as I dont have a working lathe to use or the tooling to do it in. Hopefully the bill doesn't hurt too bad, will probably have it made from bearing bronze instead of the brass they used.
also found hammer marks all over the turret mount that they used and wedged into the cross feed top ffs..... hopefully the previous idiot that owned it didn't weld it all in.
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