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| Stilldrillin:
The carriage of my mini lathe has always been free running, but with no apparent play...... The other day I was a little vigorous when tightening the toolpost handle, & rammed the tool into the rotating chuck jaws! :doh: Time for a little tighten up....... And a carriage lock.... :clap: Milled a T nut. Counterboring the 6mm screw head into the saddle casting will allow the plain portion of shank to locate both in the casting & the nut. Hopefully, giving more rigidity. :thumbup: Hmmmm......... Very dry under here. It seems oil has never penetrated the silly ball oilers! :scratch: So I removed `em. The bed wipers are a bit pifflin too..... Drilled the screw hole & assembled dry onto the slideways. There was very little unwanted movement, so I just tweaked the 6 caphead screws slightly to take up play. Plugs for the oil holes & new full width wiper rubbers. It`s now running quite sweetly, on a film of Mr. Duckham`s green 20 – 50 oil. Another successful tweak! :D That`s 2 machines sorted, over the last few weeks..... Time to do some hobby work, now..... :thumbup: David D. |
| bogstandard:
Wonderful fix David. You have got around the long bolt problem. Well done. John |
| sbwhart:
Good Fix david :clap: :clap: Stew |
| jemglen:
My oilers seem to work quite well but I love those little plugs you've turned :thumbup: Jerry |
| Twinsquirrel:
Nice work David |
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