On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:36:05 -0500, Ignoramus22312
wrote:
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.
Here is how I did similar repair on 13: S.B. lathes.
http://pages.cthome.net/errol.groff/...rew_repair.htm
Errol Groff