Recent posts
- leaves in the chip pan, the door doesn't latch
Wind yesterday. The shop door didn't latch. This morning the chip pan had leaves in it and the ways had a fine coat of outside. Wiped, oile…
- power feed kicks out halfway down a 6 inch shaft
Tool clear, it goes all the way. Under cut, it trips. Clutch, then. I'll live with the babysitting for these four and open the clutch when…
- power feed kicks out halfway down a 6 inch shaft
Logan power feed trips out around three inches into a six inch shaft, same place twice. Lever is fully in. It isn't hitting a stop I can se…
- motor mount cracked, the belt told on it
Weld it or replace it. Don't keep tightening a crack and calling it alignment. A cracked mount moves after you leave.
- boring bar springs, hole is bigger at the front
It was low. Raised it, stuck it out less, took the last two thou in two passes instead of one. Mouth and bottom agree within what my mic ca…
- boring bar springs, hole is bigger at the front
Boring a 1 inch hole, 2 inches deep, in a sprocket hub. Bar is 1/2 inch sticking out about 2.5. Hole mics bigger at the mouth by a couple t…
- box of 3/4 holders in the truck, moses lake
I'm twenty minutes out. Don't sell the boring bars out of the box before I get there. I want the mess.
- sheldon in pullman, worth the drive
I know the road, not the seller. If he won't send a picture of the ways, he has a reason. I wouldn't burn the gas.
- tailstock clamp is tight and the tailstock still moves
The shoe under the bed is probably worn, or the bolt is clamping the lever and not the shoe. Take it off. Look at the bearing surface. A ti…
- the lathe walked during a facing cut
Lag the feet or stop taking heroic cuts. A lathe that walks is telling you the cut is the wrong cut. Mine is lagged into a timber, not the…
- toolpost grinder, month four, still a bracket
Bracket fits. The grinder runs. It also throws grit into the ways if I'm careless, so I'm covering the bed like a person who learned the ha…
- toolpost grinder, month four, still a bracket
I want to grind a dead center and not send it to town. Month one was a motor off a bench grinder. Month four is a bracket that doesn't fit…