I had an issue tonight and was hoping someone could help. I had my lathe running for about 5 minutes and randomly touched the pully shaft bushes, the hole area around where the pully shaft was mounted was really hot - too hot to touch. Is this right??
Chris
If it's too hot to touch it's definitely not right. Personally I'd be inclined to try to get a slightly longer belt rather than drilling new holes, seems a bit of a shame. Secondly, you also comment about 'greasing' the bearings, are they plain bushes or ball bearings?
I have a S&B Sabel which, like yours, is a development of a Southbend and it uses a countershaft very similar to the original, fitted with bronze bushes. These are oil lubricated, not grease, despite the fact that they have what look like grease nipples. I can't imagine ball bearings could possibly get so hot so I assume you must have bushes; check the lubrication chart in the book, I'd expect oil, probably the ubiquitous ISO32 hydraulic. Mine get 'detectably warm' after half an hour or so.
Richard