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Smart and Brown Lathe Crosslide Screw Renewal

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Darren:
Thanks John, that's pretty much how I did it this time.

There's nothing like practical exp, I'm sure it will all become much clearer as time goes on... :thumbup:

Darren:
Stuck the two nuts in a hex collet holder and drilled six 3.5mm holes in each. Next job to make some small Tommy Bars....is that the right name?



Back on the lathe, a little stiff at first but soon freed up with a couple of turns backwards and forwards.




I now have a half metric lathe that will be much easier for me to get on with  :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:

Oh, and got rid of some slop of course. Now have to let it bed in and see how it goes.....

Stilldrillin:
Darren,
Those are 2 sweet looking locknuts.....  :thumbup:

That machine`s looking good inside & out!  :clap:

David D

Darren:
Thanks David,

If I'm honest the cross slide unit is a bit rough all round. Someone has also chewed it quite a bit at one end with a hacksaw by parting off work. The cross leadscrew ( Y?) was badly worn, hence I renewed it.

But it cuts straight and leaves a good finish despite it's roughness.

Fortunately the cross slide and tailstock came from another machine and I just added them to my sliding turret and lever cross slide tooling to give me more options.
The rest of the lathe is in fairly good condition.

I have found that since I actually started to use the dials on the mini lathe to gauge the depth of cut I was getting better results. I like to work in metric but couldn't really get on with the imperial dials of the Smart and Brown. So now hopefully I will find it a little easier to use with the metric screw conversion.

We shall see....fingers crossed there will be an improvement..... :dremel:

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