What I did when I got mine was take apart everthing that had to dow
tih the crossslide, got some fine grit sandpaper cleaned up
everything, get any junk outta there,lapping the gibs does help alot,
so I reccommend that, I am pretyt happy with mine, although I
personally wouldn't trust this thing to cut a thread without some
SERIOUS tweaking, cause I tried cutting threads numerous ties and
have failed, I am a machinist so its not like I don't know what I am
doing to...
good luck!
--- In 7x12minilathe@..., "bt99ss <Thvin@a...>"
<Thvin@a...> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I'm another lucky person who got a mini-lathe for Christmas and I'm
having a great time with it. I'm new to metal turning but I've
been
to both Mini-Lathe.Com and The Little Machine Shop sites and would
like to thank both for the info. I've been "dailing" the machine
in
acording to book and the other info, but have a question. The
compound feed has about .004 slop in the in and out feed. Is there
a
way to adjust, or shim this out? My second question is while
adjusting the cross slide feed (three allens) I'm able to take all
the slop out when is all the way out, but when I move it "in" it
picks up some (about .002) slop. I've played around with the
allens,
but when I move the cross slide back out it gets really tight.
I've
only adjusted (not lapped the jibs). Does anybody have any
suggestions?
Thanks for the help.
Tom Vincent
