------ Original Message ------
From: "eddie.draper@... via groups.io" <eddie.draper@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 26 Jun, 23 At 20:24
Subject: [SouthBendLathe] Cover for cross slide screw with TTA

Evening all,

Please find attached 3 photos of a cover I recently knocked up for the purpose of keeping swarf out of the cross slide screw on the railway's 14.5" x 6' toolroom SB. I have seen these illustrated on this group, and they look like a fancy piece of factory impressed metal. Mine is just a piece of spare sheet left over from another job, maybe 1mm thick. I folded a small flange on the edges to make it stiff. The anti rotation feature is just a standard socket head cap screw, 8mm in this case I think, grade unimportant, with just a light shave removed from both sides with a grinder, and this is shown in the photo with the cover removed & inverted. The pivot hole is not central (dimensions not provided - make it to suit your lathe). When it runs out of travel, just reverse it. I have proved that it covers the gap down which the bad stuff falls at all positions of the cross slide. The 2 ends are ever so slightly panned upwards in order to ride up over the joint where the slotted piece meets the cross slide proper. The inscription is simply because this is a common user lathe. By heck, how you have to watch 'em!

Cheers,

Eddie