MC900 Maintainance techniuques

**hughie** · 28th July 2006, 01:43 AM

Thin cutting disks, you say? One of the reasons I've been putting it off was the thought of toiling away with the ol' hacksaw... didn't even consider the angle-grinder.

The odds of the mod actually happening here have just been improved considerably.

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Skew, go for it,I Chucked caution to the wind chopped as much as I wanted too
The flap disc will remove allot as well, so you can trim it up to remove any indiscretions cause by the cutting disc

hughie

**reeves** · 30th July 2006, 10:26 AM

YEEEHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its done, lathe is rebuilt and WORKING fine, what a frigging miracle of endurance. Big thanks to Brett at Crabatec in brisbane for his invaluable advice on the vagaries of low cost chinese production techniques and the Andy mac for the gear puller.

I have new wheels, belt and capacitor, even with the speed control lever in upside down (i kinda like it), it kicks along.

I now know a lot more about my lathe and feel much more confident about working on it, or sending it off to carbatec for servicing at 35 an hour, saving myself pain and frustration..tho i hope i dont need to change the bearings in the future ;-)

Thanks to all for their advice and when i can get my hands on a small grinding wheel i will surely grind a hole in the side of it to enable changing of belts easier.

To the lathe----------->

cheeeeeers
john

**cedar n silky** · 31st July 2006, 11:12 PM

Good to hear your"back in the sadle"Reeves. Nothing worse than the lathe being down!!:eek: Enjoy the turning.

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