02-23-2015, 01:49 PM
Thanks for all the replies, but i'm glad to say it's now sorted 
. For the cross slide the problem was 2 things: The tappered allen bolt that holds the cross slide nut to the slide was very loose, this ws the main problem. And the nut itself needed the thread tightening which is slotted and has 2 bolts to tighten it so that was easy and now i've got no backlash at all. And the top slide was straight forward to, the grub screw which holds the brass top slide nut in was missing 
it came from a collage so hardly suprising. And the thread itself is worn, it's slotted but doesn't have a way to pull the thread together so i've pinched it up in the vice and put a grub screw in and it's 10 x better but i'm going to try to get or make a new nut. I looked at and adjusted all the gibs as well but they were all fine.
Mick i like what you have done to your lathe looks very good
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- Haydon
. For the cross slide the problem was 2 things: The tappered allen bolt that holds the cross slide nut to the slide was very loose, this ws the main problem. And the nut itself needed the thread tightening which is slotted and has 2 bolts to tighten it so that was easy and now i've got no backlash at all. And the top slide was straight forward to, the grub screw which holds the brass top slide nut in was missing it came from a collage so hardly suprising. And the thread itself is worn, it's slotted but doesn't have a way to pull the thread together so i've pinched it up in the vice and put a grub screw in and it's 10 x better but i'm going to try to get or make a new nut. I looked at and adjusted all the gibs as well but they were all fine.Mick i like what you have done to your lathe looks very good
.- Haydon