I cant believe it has taken me this long to get my lathe home. Here it is in my shed.
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Fiddling around with it before I got it wired in I manage to wind a square headed crew down too far!

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The square just went in flush with the top of the saddle.

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I manage to pull it up again but could not engage the screw with what ever it engaged with before I carelessly lost it!!
I dont know what the screw did anyway! Please cane some one enlighten me?

The machine does not have a plate giving serial numbers but the number is stamped on the cross slide.
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The machine is wired with three phases and a neutral which rather fooled my inverter but eventually we got it working by wiring the neutral from the machine to the neutral on the incoming single phase supply.
Now I have got a problem with arcing on the switch gear so I guess I will have to dismantle them and clean the contacts.
I also need to get a chuck backplate which is DIN 800 M45.
The machine, apart from its little niggles, looks and feels every bit as good as my expectations have been before I took delivery.
I have got a fair number of collets which strangely are not marked with a size however thats not the end of the world.
I do hope some one can tell me what I have done with the square headed screw and that I wont have to strip the apron down to get it back to where it should be!!
i got a manual from Tony Griffiths but it is for the fancyer version and it does nt show what the blessed screw is for!!