"Ignoramus22312"
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Now that I have my lathe "working", I started
looking at its condition
a little more closely. On my lathe, the cross
slide is moved by a
3/4-5 ACME screw, that moves a brass nut
attached to the cross slide.

There is a lot of wear in this, as in, maybe
1/16 to 1/8" of slop.

I was thinking about fixing this.

Three things come to mind.

1) Buy a McMaster ACME brass nut 95270A123 and
attach it to a custom
made part to fit under the cross slide.

2) Do something clever like wax the screw and
inject epoxy into the
nut to take up the slop.

3) Make a replacement part on the mill and
lathe.

Has anyone dealt with this issue. Clausing
wants $750 (not a typo) to
custom make this part for me.


You can also buy the appropriate acme tap and
make a new nut.

The nut part number you list above is for a
right-hand nut. You might want to take
a closer look at your old nut/screw---most I've
seen are left-hand.

Bill