Hi Dennis,
That lathe from Illinois looks like a beauty! That four jaw chuck
looks a little big for it though, maybe you should send it out here.;-
)
Is that Scott Cortez's lathe up on e-bay there? I thought it was,
but the pictures are pretty fuzzy, and the ones on the Dalton site
are
nice and clear.
I have a gib question here. After I was cleaning up the lathe last
nite, I took the top and cross slide off to see if any of those brass
chips got under anything, and while it was apart, I checked the gibs
just to see if they're flat. They're flat across the part that bears
on
the slides, but the cross slide gib is a little wedge shaped. It'a
only
by about .010, but I'm wondering if that may be why I keep getting
play
in there. The screws are tight, and stay tight, but I get play in
there
after a while. I couldn't say after how long, because I don't use the
lathe everyday. So I thought I'd put the question up here before I go
nuts trying to make the gib totally flat with a file.
Also, I think that where the screws bear on the gib, they're
probably not right in those little indentations they're supposed to
be
in, and the middle indent is a hole.It's not all the way through, but
it's a lot bigger that the point of the screw.
Where the indents are on the cross slide gib, there are two or
three
of them, but I couldn't say if they were there when I got the lathe,
or
if they're from using it with some play in the gib or what.
I posted some pictures of the gibs in my lathe file. The dark
spots
on the longer one are the high spots. I started grinding that flat,
or
smooth, and they agree with the marking blue when I tried it against
a
chunk of granite counter top, which I was assured was pretty durn
flat.
Well, I should be off to the salt mines here. Any thoughts or ideas
will be gladly accepted and greatly appreciated. Except for the ones
that state I've made things worse! ;-)
Dave
