10-13-2013, 12:40 AM
Some of you may have seen my latest post in my steady rest thread. If so, you would have seen that I used the T-slots on the carriage to hold a fixture in place to allow me to drill the holes in the frame.
When I got this lathe, the T-slots had rusted chips in there and unfortunately, most of them are still in there, as a solid, rusty reminder to keep one's lathe clean! As they were not easy to remove and I didn't want to waste time and risk potential damage to a feature that I never thought I would use, I never gave them much thought. Well fast forward a few years and I can now see the benefit of having T-slots. I'll have to take some pictures when I'm next in the workshop, as I have none that show the problem.
So - my question is: how do I remove them?
When I got this lathe, the T-slots had rusted chips in there and unfortunately, most of them are still in there, as a solid, rusty reminder to keep one's lathe clean! As they were not easy to remove and I didn't want to waste time and risk potential damage to a feature that I never thought I would use, I never gave them much thought. Well fast forward a few years and I can now see the benefit of having T-slots. I'll have to take some pictures when I'm next in the workshop, as I have none that show the problem.
So - my question is: how do I remove them?
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