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Mini lathe carriage.

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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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