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Had some time to finally get this up and running.
Ordered up a belt kit and mounted the lathe, motor and counter shaft on a spare bench.
The spindle had an awful lot of end float. On inspection I think at some point the adjusting nut has gone missing as there’s just a threaded collar on the shaft which was fully screwed on but there was still a gap between it and the headstock casting.
Fitted a couple of washers and took out the end float. A nice little job sometime will be to turn a brass collar to replace the washers. One problem at the moment is when it’s running it wobbles like mad. I was hoping to have the whole setup free-standing so I’ll need to beef up the bench it’s on. If I can’t eliminate the wobble I’ll bolt the bench to the wall.
Will add some pics tomorrow.
Ordered up a belt kit and mounted the lathe, motor and counter shaft on a spare bench.
The spindle had an awful lot of end float. On inspection I think at some point the adjusting nut has gone missing as there’s just a threaded collar on the shaft which was fully screwed on but there was still a gap between it and the headstock casting.
Fitted a couple of washers and took out the end float. A nice little job sometime will be to turn a brass collar to replace the washers. One problem at the moment is when it’s running it wobbles like mad. I was hoping to have the whole setup free-standing so I’ll need to beef up the bench it’s on. If I can’t eliminate the wobble I’ll bolt the bench to the wall.
Will add some pics tomorrow.