On 29 September 2014 08:14, Dave Caroline <[email protected]> wrote: > I would just think of the bed as a casting, discard the rubbish > sitting on it, add a couple of rails and slides now you have something > than can carry a saddle without tightening and play.
A decent plan, apart from the fact that the bed is far too narrow for the centre height really (it was a rather meanly-proportioned 12" lathe stretched to 9") and the headstock is just a pair of taper roller bearings that are not quite as good a fit as one might like so it chatters unless the bearings are too tight, unless the tailstock is used, and with no proper provision for lubrication. The lubrication provision is a little better now that the oiler hole is drilled all the way to the bearing, not just far enough to insert an oiler.... Did I mention that my lathe is rubbish? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
