Thread: MC900 off center

Hi Mrs Blackie,

No the lathe head stock is fine and in alignment, the problem is with the insert and chuck,
I have worked out how to over come the variance , so will see how it goes.

Cheers,

Jeff

No the lathe head stock is fine and in alignment, the problem is with the insert and chuck,

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Jeff, I have found in the past that its invariably the insert, especially if you have bought a known brand of chuck.

Hughie,

Yes the vicmarc is a good chuck, and came with an insert from VERMEC , I don't know if Enzo makes his own inserts, but I doubt it,

Jeff

I had a very similar experiance with a hare and forbes new lathe matching a supernova2 chuck and insert. I ended up padding out the thread between lathe and insert with plumbers tape and it ended up giving me near perfect runnout.

Thanks, I will give that a go today.

The joys of being retired, we were fishing in the boat yesterday.

Jeff

Originally Posted by vk4

Hi All,
I have found that the main shaft is 0.5 mm out of center, and as it is 2nd hand the importer (HARE&FORBES) WILL NOT HONOR THE 12MONTH WARRANTY.

FYI only cars and houses carry the warranty on to someone other than the original purchaser. You could have bought that lathe 3 days after the original purchases bought it and the warranty would still be out the window

Yes also the same for caravans , no warranty on second hand either,.

Any way I have thoroughly checked the lathe out, and found an issue with the CHUCK, which I brought NEW, I took this back to the supplier and it was fixed immediately .

So I now have all working as they should be.

And i am now making some sanding jigs etc.

cheers,

Jeff