Ken, Thanks so much for the finding your pictures and taking the time to post them to help me. I appreciate it so much! Those are very nice pictures too!
I'm attempting to take the apron off of my Lodge and Shipley Model X lathe. Taking the feed levers that resemble cow udders off of the apron exposes the shafts for the longitudinal and cross feed engagement. Around those shafts coming out of the apron are brass bushings with wider collars up...
I'm sorry that you struggled with it, but I admit getting a chuckle when I read the solution. Sort of like you will probably when enough time has passed if you aren't there already. Thanks for coming back to let us know what happened.
The buffer is direct drive and the motor shaft is held by bearings that are in the end of cast iron hollow arms and only about 6" of shaft extends beyond the cart iron arms. Maybe the grinder was dropped and the shaft bent a bit in inside the cast housing near the motor. I bought the buffer...
I have a pedestal buffer and I think I need to make a new shaft for it because it wants to walk across the floor even with no wheel on the shaft. One end of the 1" shaft has a .0005" runout and the other end has a .0015" runout. If I make a new shaft out of 4140 should I start with annealed or...
Does anyone have the information to be able to make the proper gears for metric threading? I checked with Monarch and the cost was too much for me. The manual specifies the gears needed with respect to the number of teeth for both the change gears and the two "drivetrain" gears. The attached...
I've got three geometric die heads that I've picked up. In the videos I've watched most are having the die head pull the tail stock into the carriage to release the dies from the workpiece.
In the videos I've seen the tailstocks are not very big and I'd like to know if anyone is using a die...
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