03-05-2013, 11:00 AM
(03-05-2013, 10:09 AM)f350ca Wrote: No but I was having the same problem on my Colchester, blamed it on wear. Turned out the bolt that holds the nut for the feed screw on the cross slide had become loose. You could feed by hand with no movement but as soon as you engaged the longitudinal feed the cross slide would shift, guessing it was the instant acceleration.
I'm suspecting something like that also. Time to tear down the cross slide and do some maintenance. I lost the use of the cross slide lock when I installed the DRO. It's there but it's blocked by the scale. I plan on relocating it to the headstock side so maybe it's time to do that as long as I have it torn apart for maintenance.
Thanks for the tip on the loose nut.
Ed