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- clausing saddle sits proud of the way on one side
Felt had doubled over on itself like a sock. Pulled it, saddle sat down, still a little light on that side but not a cave. We left the scre…
- clausing saddle sits proud of the way on one side
Brother's Clausing, 5914. The saddle, on the tailstock side, has daylight under one way I can see with a flashlight. Other side is kissing…
- leveling a logan on a slab, the floor thread was a 9A
One shim under the front headstock foot. Collars agree within half a thou. I wrote it on the wall, which is his wall, and he can paint over…
- leveling a logan on a slab, the floor thread was a 9A
Brother's Logan is on a slab, not a wood floor, so I'm not going to pretend the old 9A thread is the same machine. Two collars, eight inche…
- center drill walks off the spot I punched
Tailstock was out a few thou. I was punching because a video punched. The video was drilling in a mill. Different building. Recentering the…
- center drill walks off the spot I punched
Spot with a punch, then a center drill in the tailstock, and the hole is visibly not on the punch. Work is sticking out of the chuck about…
- micrometer collar slips on the cross slide screw
Flat filed. Dial stays where I put it. I checked by turning it like I was mad. It stayed. Good enough for a machine that isn't mine.
- micrometer collar slips on the cross slide screw
The dial on the compound's neighbor, the cross slide, spins free if I look at it wrong. Set screw is tight. The screw under the set screw i…
- tailstock clamp is tight and the tailstock still moves
Shoe was glazed and crowned. Filed it flat, roughened it, put it back. Creep is gone in a one inch hole, which is as far as I was willing t…
- tailstock clamp is tight and the tailstock still moves
Clamp lever on the brother's Logan comes up solid. Tailstock still creeps toward the headstock when I drill, maybe a sixteenth over a deep…
- drawbar or a closer, for a lathe that sees collets twice a year
Told him. He looked relieved, which means he wanted the permission, not the closer. I'll make a drawbar that isn't allthread the next weeke…
- drawbar or a closer, for a lathe that sees collets twice a year
Brother's Logan has a 5C nose adapter and a drawbar made out of allthread and optimism. We use collets maybe twice a year. A lever closer i…