On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 10:00 PM, Jon Rus wrote:
I'm going to offer that you may have a broken plastic gear inside the lathe.
A easy way to eliminate the gear train is to place the high/low gear lever in a vertical (neutral) position and see if the motor works O.K. You could also try turning the chuck by hand in both the hi and low gears to see what happens. If there are bad teeth you should feel that after a couple turns of the chuck.
