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Thread: Tuning out backlash/slop/play?
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14th October 2018, 05:10 PM #1Most Valued Member
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Tuning out backlash/slop/play?
Sorry guys, I warned you I'd become a pest with my incessant questions...
So, my 260ATM has backlash in the compound handle/collar as well as the cross slide. As you turn the cross slide it takes a few gradations before it starts to take up. The compound is far worse - you can turn the handle from zero past '0.2' and half way to '0.4' before the slop takes up. I know that this is going to annoy the hell out of me.
Is there an accepted procedure for 'tuning out' this slop? Seems to me there must be but I've poked around and can't find it. Any step-by-step advice would be a huge help. I am a lathe newbie but have a life history working with things mechanical, I'm sure this won't be a big problem. I just want my lathe to feel like the precision instrument it is!
So, thanks in advance. I'm off to the shed to make up a forked screwdriver for removing those dome nuts on the handles...
Moz
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