On 2010-12-22, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:01:31 -0800 (PST), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Dec 20, 7:21*pm, wrote:
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:41:32 -0500, "Wild_Bill"

If you ask a fellow 9x20-er if his pieces chatter the answer is never.
Under any circumstances!

My South Bend certainly chatters if the surface speed is too high.
Then I slap it into back gear and watch the work slowly revolve like a
cement mixer.

I thought that's what the big handle was for. Admittedly coordinating
the left hand cranking the spindle and the right hand turning the
cross-feed is a bit tricky.

The crank on the spindle is for lathes which don't *have* back
gears -- or do have them, but still can't go slow enough. I think that
the 9x and 7x import lathes don't have real back gears, and thus can't
get really slow enough.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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