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There you go

Edited By Mathew Lee on 02/01/2013 21:58:16

Bazyle: looks like you were right, after a bit of messing about to get the apron off, turning the handle was still stiff, so punched out the pinion / rod, there's 0.3mm of run out.

Thanks for the help, Mat

I had a go at taking it apart (found my printed manual that came with the machine), the carriage and the apron have locating pins: I was hoping that I could separate the carriage from the apron, then remove the front of the bed, slide the apron to the cut out and be able to remove the pinion without having to actually remove the apron, however I think the locating pins are possibly stopping it. I might be able to make a jig to remove the locating pins as they're tapped, but I think the gear for the cross slide feed sticks out into the carriage.

I thought about disassembling the carriage, but some of the nuts are pretty inaccessible, so it looks like I need to remove the apron.

The worm for the feed is in a bracket held on by 2 screws underneath, but removing the screws didn't enable me to slide the worm away from the apron.

I don't have much clearance on the rhs of the lathe, but I do have the engine hoist I used to get the lathe into position, so I could move the whole lathe: I've been thinking about sliding out the leadscrew to remove those covers as the seriously limit the carriage travel and I clearly should've done it earlier! I think with the leadscrew out of the way, I can possibly get the apron off.

In any case, I'll need to ring Warco for a spare part, so they probably know how to take it apart, I'm sure I'm not the first to have leadscrew cover related damage.

Thanks, Mat

Bazyle: I managed to disengage the feed before anything went bang, the binding is periodic with the pinion, so I think you're right that one of the shafts is bent!

How hard is it to disassemble the apron? I guess I'm about to find out!

Les:

Lathe uses the rack & pinion for feed, the bind is there when I wind by hand. The feed / half nuts appear to work, so if feels like something has been knocked out of adjustment somehere? Not having investigated, does it have gib strips or something?

Terry:

Thanks for the diagram, I need to dig my manual out, it did mention shear pins, is it possible that they're half sheared and half working? How hard is it to disassemble?

Thanks, Mat

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble with my Warco GH1232 (doesn't help that Warco are shut for the hols) - I was skimming a round bar with the auto feed, I didn't notice that I'd run out of travel due to the leadscrew cover.

I don't think I broke anything, but now the carriage travel is binding somewhere: anyone got any ideas?

My current thought is that it might be something to do with the keyway slot in the bar that drives the automatic feed... No idea how to disassemble it!

Thanks, Mat