On Jun 9, 8:08*pm, Wes wrote:
I have a machine at work, I do not have to fix it in the next couple days but I'd like to
fix it before they decide to scrap it since the production job is currently running on a
tool room lathe I'd rather not have production near since I use the thing..

Anyway, if I fix it cheap, it stays, production goes back to using it and I'm happy. There
is a shaft that got loose, wallered out the woodruff key seat and wallered out the pulley.
The first thought is welding and turning it down. *

I can't spray weld we are not equipped so that is off the table. *The metal adder
available is a wire feed welder.

The area needing rebuilding is located between two threaded sections. *That makes welding
a bit tricky.

Nevermind, welding isn't looking so great, I'm not that good.

Okay, is 1144 a good steel for making an input shaft for a lathe? *It isn't highly
stressed.

But since I posed the question, how would you build up a shaft where you had to protect
the threaded sections and build up a damaged key seat. *Might as well learn something. You
only have a wirefeed welder to work with, no spray welder.

Wes

Cut a new key elsewhere?

Turn it smooth, bore out the pulley, make a split bushing to fill the
space?

jsw