Rebuilding the lathe’s tailstock turret attachment. The Enco turret tailstock is in need of a cleanup. It is missing a few pieces and most of the tooling clamps are jammed. Enco made these HexTurrets to fit specific lathes. This HexTurret fits my Clausing Colchester 13″ Lathe. During this restoration, I’m going to disassemble the tailstock, […]
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Reassembly begins on the Dyna Myte 2800 Centroid Retrofit. This week I start cleaning up some parts in preparation for reassembly. Ran a piece through the Purple Power, Evapo-rust and Oxpho-Blue combination.
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Finally got to the bottom of my backlash issue. I was lulled into a false sense of security by the number of bearings I originally got out of the ball nut. Plus a few shout-outs to other YouTube channels.
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