Well Mr Bogs my lifestyle is still fairly active which is something I blame on the current economic situation!

Whatever, your mention of boring bars might be what done it or it might have been a miracle but when I pulled the head off and laid the bits out on the bench everything seemed OK, no sign of damage anywhere.
So I put it all back together with a bit of oil on the surfaces and now no amount of pulling or wriggling will get the play back.

So I set her going and she faced off a small block of mild steel and hummed while she was at it, even cutting a decent recess into the steel and no sign of the chattering tantrums of yesterday.
However, trying to cut a slot sets the chattering going again but as she cuts so nicely with a rounded end tool I will have to pay attention to the shape of the slotting tool, some of the references say slotting is the hardest to do. (Now why would that be? Would it be because slotting is probably the most useful function of a little shaper?

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Time for bed now, no time this evening for the gyroscope project!