Pete Wass
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Not to hi-jack this thread but
Does anyone know of a source to buy the trim nuts that hold in the jog switch and light on the lathe in this picture? I have one like it with those two trim nuts broken.
Thanks,
Pete
OK, I found a picture on photobucket of the front of the threading gearbox that shows the three levers and their positions identified. In the user manual there is a drawing of this and it has arrows that point to all three levers and says "Feed and Threading Change lever". Notice that is says "Lever" when it points to three levers. Anyway, here's the picture:
There is a threading spindle and a turning spindle and a third rod that turns the main spindle on/off and controls direction of rotation.
A little more perusal of the feed chart indicates that for all feed rates the RST lever would be set to R and the other two levers would be set to 1,2,3,4, EorF to give the feed rate indicated in the chart. Again, predicated on the gear configuration indicated on the feed chart. So, if I didn't change the gear configuration from N on the threading chart I would just get an unknown feed rate. There is probably some way to calculate the feed rate from the threading configuration, but that's way beyond me.
At this point I need to either have a drink or go to bed. Maybe I'll do both.
Does anyone know of a source to buy the trim nuts that hold in the jog switch and light on the lathe in this picture? I have one like it with those two trim nuts broken.
Thanks,
Pete