Mr. Suburban Tool Inc., you need to make lots more videos!!! Your knowledge needs to be shared with the world!!! And the entertainment value is also a much needed factor in the need to create more content!!! I need to absorb more of your brain content!!!
Hi Don, that was an interesting video. Could you tell me how you would go about setting the play between the change gears on an engine lathe? I have heard a couple ways. What I did was went with a piece of paper, no not that pack of shim stock you carry in your pocket, I mean a piece of writing paper LOL. Putting the paper between the gears when they are meshed and then securing them at that point. The gears look like they are in very good shape, not all worn out from a lot of years of work. Thanks for the video and looking forward to part 2.
For me it was impossible to cut screws on my lathe (Craigslist, used Central Machinery 9x20 for $200) until I traced the problem to 120/128 gear that was mounted concentrically but with play between them. I clamped, then drilled through the two near the outer edge and peaned a brass pin to hold them fast. No more screw turning problems. Yea! :-)
Other things that can cause a problem is wear on the pivot hole that the axel of the gear rides in. The wear is almost always one sided (in the direction of the pressure on the gear).
If you end up remounting the rack to use an unworn portion and this solves that problem beware of forgetting about the wear of the other side if an occasion arises that you end up using it. Out of sight out of mind is okay for inventory, but not for bad areas of your machine. PERMANENTLY MARK those areas as BAD and only to be used when tolerances do not need to be close.
SuburbanTool Inc it’s been a while since u last posted so what I meant is, I had never unsubscribed! My fault! Look forward to the next video and hopefully many more thereafter.