someidiot
Well-Known Dismemberer
Lots going on with the impending inevitable cold crunch (I just test fired the radiant heater I got for the garage last year and it seems to be running - better vent it, though!), but I took a little break tonight to pull the apron off of my lathe. The symptom is an inordinate amount of slop/lash in the carriage handwheel. Now that I can see the gears, they're obviously not meshing tightly and I don't know what I can do about it. Is this likely to be the normal wear these things exhibit after 70 (?) years? Are there replacement gears to be found?