In article . net, Peter Grey
says...

I had the same confusion with my SB 11", and, as Bill suggests, when I used
the half nuts instead of the carriage feed, things got a little easier. It
also took me a little bit to figure out that there is a stop built in and
the half nut lever won't move and engage the half nuts unless I pull the
cross feed "button" out. I don't know if your H10 is like this, but I
figured I'd mention it.

It's a good point, and his 10L is like that. There's a lockout
to prevent engaging the longitudinal feeds and the halfnuts
at the same time. If one were able to do this (and some old
machines lack such a lock-out) it has the effect of putting
two power transmission paths in parallel, and because they
have two different ratios, it will lock the driven gear and
blow up the weakest link in the driveline.

Jim


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