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Shortly after buying my current lathe, a Chinese copy of the Aloris BXA QCTP was purchased as a set. I paid the minimal extra for the wedge style. The toolpost I got in the set does work reliably, but the wedges are a poor fit in the main body and have a terrible canting action in use. The...

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Part 176 moves axially (left and right). I presume it means that shaft 166 is moving the same amount.

I'll have to take it apart to see. After watching more videos it doesn't look so bad. The auto-feed mechanism had me worried. Now I believe the circlip has come off the shaft allowing it to migrate to the right. Either the pinion gear pushing the quill up and down is coming off the rack...

There appears to be a circlip on the other side that should secure shaft #166 above. (Thanks to H&W Machine Repair and Rebuilding for the images!) The shaft won't pull out but it does feel like it's not located properly.

On the weekend I was using the 9x49 clone and had some issues with the quill feed. This is the manual feed on the right hand side, not the power feed on the left side. Attempting to drill holes in the same fashion as a drill press, I noticed that the manual quill feed would catch or hang up...

Craig, that is a very generous offer! I might take you up on that. I'll have to dig out the old Meca universal dividing head!

Thanks! The shipping is as much as the gear, but I may be in the UK later this year!

I had considered that. 16DP 14.5PA gears aren't easy to come by or won't be cheap. I'm leaning towards making my own to save a few hundred dollars.

I placed an order for a set of steal mini lathe gears. The set of 27 gears includes all the change gears I need except the 127T. Since they are all Module 1 20PA it will be easy to get different ones in the future too. That leaves the 48T and 68T 16DP 14.5PA gears to find since they need to...

This morning I looked again to see if it was possible to pivot the 83T idler gear to the back of the lathe rather than swap it out for a 68T and move the idler axle to a new hole. The headstock drain is in the way. It would be necessary to remove the standoff pipe and put a pipe plug directly...

Thanks for the info @Brent H ! That makes complete sense. My 1120 does have a tapped hole in front of the input gear boss in what seems like the correct location to secure the banjo. A friend of mine let me know that he has a 3D printer now so he's able to print for me. That could either be...

@Brent H how does the banjo fit over the oiler on the quick change input shaft? When I was considering making the banjo in the first place I assumed it needed to pivot around the input shaft, but the oiler on there complicates things. Just pull the oiler out and install in the banjo so you...

John, RDGTools sure have a good selection of gears for the Myford lathes! I could pretty much buy every gear I need but they are DP20 so the 127T gear would be larger by a little more than an inch in diameter. I'm really starting to like the idea of machining at least some of the gears from a...

John, I should be in town April 20 and would love to join if you let the rabble in. Cheers!