Licking my Wounds Lathe Rebuild Project

[BillyT]

(06-25-2014, 07:41 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Nice work Billy. It looks like that will be a real nice lathe once you get it sorted out. The spindle through hole looks nice and big which is always a good thing.

I helped a mate pull the gears on his 7" lathe and we had to do a similar thing in stripping out all the gears to get the the seal that was leaking! We made the call to replace all the bearings at the same time.

I agree it's better to change them all now rather than take it all apart again