Oh, Sh! T Bob I feel your pain, You idiot, kick yourself in the arse.

You do know you are a dolt, eh? Oh hell......kick yourself again.

But hey, you admitted your screw up. A small slip of attention that
resulted in huge consequences.
Glad no body parts were swarf.
You'll never perform that particulular act again, and as a bonus, you
were "Guy" enough to fess up, on usenet, and teach us all to ...Be
Careful, and THINK.
What would teenut say?

~D




Bob Engelhardt wrote:

Back in July I posted about having a shear element in a feed gear train
to protect the gears. Of course, I never did anything about it and I
just broke a gear!! My *new* to me Jet 1024. I locked the carriage to
do facing and then forget it was locked as I went to do turning. Damn!
And the gear is inside the apron, of course.

The lathe has an interlock to prevent engaging the threading feed screw
and the turning shaft at the same time. An interlock on the carriage
lock is what I needed.

'Guess it's time to get some skill repairing gear teeth. Sigh.

Bob

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