![]() ![]() The sleeve bearings were worn almost through, the holes severely deformed into egg shapes. I took the thing apart and I found the usual suspect. I rotated the pulley by hand and to my relief, the shaft was not bent, the pulleys stayed at the same angle during the entire revolution. First issue I noticed was a rubbing sound coming from the headstock, after looking carefully I found that the axle that holds the intermediate pulleys between the motor and the spindle were severely crooked. ![]() The cast iron frame of the machine felt pretty sturdy and it could take reasonable chip loads without chattering too much, considering that the ways haven't been properly adjusted or even lubricated yet.Īfter I had my 15 minutes of fun it was time to take it all back apart in order to give it the maintenance it deserves. The lathe ran pretty well, I did a skim cut to the rotor commutator in the picture (from a very chewed up blender), and cut some aluminum and plastic. So I proceeded to haphazardly put all the main parts together on the floor and flipped the switch on. I could not contain myself, I had to make some chips. The lathe arrived home very well packaged, opening all those boxes inside of other boxes that contained the different parts of the machine was like Christmas. ![]()
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