I broke me lathe

[John Stevenson]

OK before someone gets it in first.

CLUMSY BASTARD

Rushing a job to get finished tonight [ always the case and in this case it isn't finished ] and this lump of scrapbinium {tm} comes hurtling out the chuck, removing the tool which I haven't found yet, shearing the bolts holding the toolpost on and throwing it on the deck.

So far all cosmetic but the force of throwing this lot all over pushed the saddle back at warp speed and removed two teeth off the handwheel pinion. Rack is hardened and is fine and the pinion shaft is also hardened.

I dare say I can get a new shaft but liable to be a couple of weeks waiting, could get a pinion and stub it onto the shaft, again two days.

What to do ?

Answers later, off down the pub for a meal and cry.

[Bill in Ky]

I'm thankful that you were not hurt.
Machines can be fixed.

[gwilson]

Blimey,'is lathe is knackered.

Can't you make the parts? I've had to do that before,but have no idea about your lathe. Do you have another lathe? I have 2,which is handy if I need to make parts for one that breaks down. You probably could turn simple turnings like the shaft and pinion gear with your milling machine,and cut the teeth in a small gear.

[Toolguy]

Too bad you haven't got a POS Bridgy, you could make a new pinion gear in an hour or so. Oh wait - you DO have one! What a fabulous stroke of luck that is! Now you can get that lathe going again in no time!

[Alistair Hosie]

Buy new John it is always better to have anew part than a fixed part.No slur intended on your excellent workmanship.
MY new saw should have come with a micro adjuster about the size of your finger with a small pinion on it and two free bronze bushes which get tapped into make a tight fit .It's small with a plastic handle it cost me seventy quid inc post and I am glad I bought it I can set the woodsaw up to within a 32'nd of an inch and it cuts just that.The fence has a steel pipe which carries a rack underneath it took me all day to figure out what was wrong/or rather how it worked as the brochure is not good at explaining that part,. So you have abig advantage over me a proper brain. Alistair

[Zahnrad Kopf]

I dare say I can get a new shaft but liable to be a couple of weeks waiting, could get a pinion and stub it onto the shaft, again two days. What to do ?

Fret not, old sod... I'm sure SOMEONE here is just WAITING to give you the shaft~!

WJR

[Boostinjdm]

Are you worried about any damage to the chuck jaws or spindle? I had a little incident with a parting tool a while back and now my 10" 3 jaw is all out of whack. I don't even know where to start looking for the error. My 6" is still fine so I'm assuming the spindle is alright.

[lazlo]

Is that the TOS? Weren't you planning to get rid of it?

[John Stevenson]

Yup it is the TOS but the small one, about 14 x 40 size.
Big one is still here and so is the CVA so not short of lathes just that this one does all the work.

Got it all stripped down before I knocked off for the night so decided to make a new shaft with the pinion as part of the shaft as it was and get it hardened. Not got a MOD 1.5 hob but I'm sure I can borrow one from the gear cutting company in the morning.

[philbur]

Rumour has it that Myfords are real cheap this week.

Phil