scudderfish
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| posted on 1/8/25 at 05:46 PM |
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Wobbly lathe
There is play in my (cheap Chinese) lathe. Does anyone with something similar know which of the screws etc I can adjust for it?
Regards,
David
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ra99rZfSpeQ
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PAULD
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| posted on 1/8/25 at 06:31 PM |
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The grub screw with the lock nut on the cross slide is one, there should be another thats not visible under the compound slide. these push on the gib
strip.
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scudderfish
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| posted on 1/8/25 at 08:19 PM |
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Thanks 
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scudderfish
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| posted on 2/8/25 at 06:51 AM |
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I'd never heard of the term 'gib strip' so I went googling and ended up on this site
https://www.mini-lathe.com/mini_lathe/Tuning/tuning.htm which seems to have all I need to make this thing actually work well. Thanks for the pointer
Paul
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 5/8/25 at 08:36 AM |
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gib strips are a pain in the proverbial on my mill, they're either too tight or too loose, nowhere inbetween lol
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