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Moving lathe pull it completely apart?
- Thread starter djberta
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Still appear to be attachments to me??????
Cleaning the lathe as I go along. Found using Mr clean. A scrubbing pad. Clean with a light soap water mix then. dry then Wd40 wipe down. Told adage, once you start clean may as well keep going. The gear box and screw are there to show what I started with. Pic of the shaper on the mount I made on the weekend. The drawers came with the lathe. I use old desk tops for projects.the desks I usually pic up for free or like 20 bucks. I use the drawers in my garage benches.
Another Dave
Member
Hey I have the same lathe. I moved it and did take the head stock off. I cleaned super well (no abrasives) with degreasers and rags. Now I question the alignment of the headstock. Any suggestions to check/ realign?
Check with Craig he successfully removed his headstock. I left mine attached. I am just getting ready to run my lathe again after the move. It is all together. I have the cheapest vfd off amazon to run it so we will see how well that works. Mine has a 3phase motor on it. Is your motor in your base or on the back side?
Another Dave
Member
My motor is on the back side. I have a 240 single phase running it.
Chipper5783
Super User
Just bolt it back together (you have already cleaned it well - that is the important part). The alignment was established when the machine was manufactured. Check by doing test cuts (~1” diameter bar, extended 6” from chuck, no tailstock support, cut ring about 1/2 wide at the outer end and near the chuck, with the mid-region under cut, very light cuts with a super keen tool) - then measure the resulting diameter.
That describes what I did. I was prepared to shim on the V-way under the headstock - not required. So try it, maybe the alignment is good.
Why question it? What are the symptoms?
SM are a good quality lathe, with the HS accurately scraped into alignment on the bed (I watched it being done). With the inverted V way geometry, if the headstock was aligned when it came off, if clean, it will align perfectly when it goes back on. There won't be any shims in there, just HS on bed (no quality manufacturer would do that). if you find any, someones been in and mucked about. Unless there was a monumental crash, a guess would be that they didn't know what they were doing and were messing about with HS alignment. If you ever encounter any, note where the shims are and their thickness then put them aside and reassemble without them and test.
If you are getting a taper with the test Chipper suggests, its almost for sure a levelling issue not a HS alignment issue. A lathe will twist enough under its own weight such that path of the tool is no longer aligned perfectly with the axis and you'll cut a taper. A master precision level is the perfect tool for fixing this, but without one you can tweak it into perfection with the tailstock end levelling bolts.
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