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5" cross slide travel for 7x12s
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11-13-2013, 11:06 AM
Having trouble getting around big diameter's on your 7x-- try this.
New 7x12 cross slide feed screw 5.pdf (Size: 1.48 MB / Downloads: 65)
Problem solved. Brian. 
11-13-2013, 02:43 PM
Brian, Thanks for the write up.
Did you relocate the cross slide nut to allow increased travel toward the operator? I think what most mini lathe owners have done is to mill out material in the cross slide base. Here are two examples: http://gadgetbuilder.com/CrossSlide.html http://mikesworkshop.weebly.com/cross-sl...ravel.html Can you show us about your half nuts and the new location? Regards, Mike
MikeK, proud to be a member of MetalworkingFun Forum since Oct 2013.
11-13-2013, 03:45 PM
Hi Mike
One of rhe early jobs I did on the lathe years ago was to mill out the slot in the saddle and add a spacer to get more travel but you loose an equal amount at the opposite end of the travel, the new feed screw cures this.its a old mod as is spliting the nut into two, is a very old 7x10 mod I dont know who did it first, but I have added a couple of refinements to make it Even better the location remains the same. I will do another post later covering this and other work. Brian |
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