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Bumble Fingers courts disaster!
John Hill:
Yes I am certainly impressed and I pinned a notice to that effect on the board in the tea room over at Gareth's site! :bow: If they were not 12000 miles away a pint or two would have been in order. :beer:
My local supplier was very keen to help but frankly admitted that they do not handle enough to have had any experience in taking them apart. (Well I know they do not handle many as mine was in their showroom for four years or so!)
I took a quick peep at mine as I was leaving for work this morning and I have a clutch on the feed screw but not on the drive rod.
Thanks for your advice too John.
CC, it is something we do not see much of nowadays but they dont arf tork pharney! :lol:
John Hill:
Well that all came apart easy enough! I even found the little screw at the very last moment in fact I had almost given up swilling kerosene around inside and pouring it out.
The construction appears to be "quite good" although there are a few places where I would have expected there to be a bearing. There is no real effort to keep the oil in the box and even two of the bolt holes to attach outer brackets are drilled right into the box and there is nothing to seal oil seepage through the threads! There is no provision for lubication to get to the power feed worm and wheel which is at the back of the box and not easily convenient for manual lubrication. Although the half nuts could be easily removed for cleaning it is impossible while the apron is on the lathe as the chip pan prevents it, even on my lathe which has had very little work, even less using the feed screw, the half nuts had a nasty collection of greasy gunge and metal particals ready to grind away at the feed screw!
sbwhart:
Thats good news John pleased you tracked the little bugger down :thumbup:
Hope the rebuild goes well :thumbup:
:beer:
Stew
Darren:
Blimey, it was actually in there then......my usual is to find it on the floor or some such place while I've got the bits all in pieces...... :ddb:
Well done, glad you found it...... :clap:
CrewCab:
Nice one John :thumbup:
Glad it's worked out OK
CC
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