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that looks to be about the correct information. thanks.

I've got a switch that I'm unsure of what it's supposed to do. Here's a pic of it on the headstock of my lathe.

just have to make sure you purchase the correct inserts to fit. there are 3 differant sizes of DCMT inserts from what I can tell.

Anyone have any extra lathe tooling they might want to give up for free?

not sure what the hell thread i'm cutting here, but it's cutting threads. Still seeing that slop which I believe might be in the gear train. I'm not seeing anything in the threads themselves as you can see. Got ahold of Preston from Modern Tool. he's going to approach there suppliers about...

no friction that I could tell or binding at all. hand wheel turns freely. I think I might have found the issue though. there is a gib adjustment block which I believe was much too loose. The dovetail was actually flopping around until I tightened up the gib slightly. Now I need to figure out...

Play in lead screw Gear box

The lead screw had some crud embedded which I used a wirebrush to remove. it now looks pristine. One of the first things I checked was for any wobble while the leadscrew was under power and it seems to be fine. One thing I noticed was that when the clam shell engages, the threading indicator...

just the first 50 seconds are good. the rest is my phone sitting on a desk :) Here's the video I promised.. First upload was rejected because of a radio playing the background and youtube didn't want desparado by the eagles playing in the video.

engages the half nut onto the threading screw. correct