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Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone had installed Warco's latest DRO's to the WM 16 mill.

Recently got mill after visiting Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition and order the DRO as well.

Took a few photos of DRO fitted to the WM16.

Just wondered if any advice out there and/or pictures to help install

Thanks again

Matt

All sorted !

took off the interlock plate as suggested to save me time taking side off and back on.

Final gear was the culprit....took it off put it back on and seemed slightly tighter.

Did paper test to mesh all gears one by one.....but....still noisy.

Manual kept adjusting the banjo left and right until got all gears not rubbing and the final mesh

with the spindle was ok and hey presto back to be a quiter lathe.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Cant wait till I get my milling machine next month to see what fun and games that brings !

Cheers

Matt

Thanks guys....will take on board your comments.

Nothing could of happened to the gear box itself could it ?....remember giving the leadscrew gear a light tap with rubber mallet to get it back in place after changing the oil.

When I do get the banjo in place and manually turn the chuck to rotate things it seems to run smoothly with no rattle but as soon as you speed it up gets very noisy.

difficult to see as I have to put the side back on to turn on the lathe.

Will give it another go today.

Thanks

Matt

Thanks Jason....once I have done my fathers taxi service this morning I will get onto it....many thanks Jason and everyone else for your replies.

Matt

Thanks guy's for replies....just spent another hour and a half having a go but still no joy.

Did look at washers like Jason suggested but think I had them the right way round and they are different thickness.

Did manage to get it slightly better but then lost it again when moving it around.

Pretty convinced that is where the noise is coming from but I did get a bit worried that it may have been coming from the gearbox.....gear oil used in there and probably slightly overfilled.

Cant believe this banjo mechanism is so fussy .... really puts me off changing gears to do any threading.

Have another go tomorrow !

cheers

Matt

Hi all,

wanted to change the oil in the gear box as suggested after a few months use. As expected the oil drain plug is located behind the lead screw gear !!

Disengaged the banjo that holds the change gears and took off all the gears as I needed to take off the Lead screw gear to get to the drain plug.

Changed oil etc etc

put the gears back on and adjusted backlash as best I could....engaged banjo back onto spindle cog and checked everything moving smoothly.

Fired up the lathe and low and behold sounded very noisy around the spindle/chuck region almost like the bearings had gone.

Disengaged the change gear banjo so nothing touching the spindle cog and turn on lathe and it sounds nice and quite !

took off all change gears again then re-attached .... did the paper test for setting teeth engagement but still very noisy.

Its almost like the gear change banjo is pressing too hard against the spindle but I have tried it being nice and tight ...loose...but still same result...very noisy in the spindle/chuck region I think.

Never thought that doing simple maintenance would cause this much hassle....then again I am new to the world of home engineering....or is it just cheap Chinese stuff ?

ps working perfectly fine before messing with the change gear banjo.

Many thanks

Matt

Anyone know here to get just V Block clamps from ??? aquired 2 eclipse 230 blocks 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 x 2 inch (35cm x 35cm x 50cm) without the clamps off ebay.

Thanks

Matt

Thanks everyone for replies...really impressed with the forum and helpful replies.

Will contact warco about replacement pin...can't see much online apart from marine shaft shear pins.

suppose I should make one really now I have a lathe !

Thanks again everyone.

Manager to gentley drill out some of the soft metal shear pin and tap the rest of it out.

temporary measure ....cut off bit of allen key that fitted loosely and lead screw rotates now.

All power feeds on carriage/crossslide seem to work ok now.

As Mike suggested just need to turn down a piece of brass or plastic to slot back in and should be good to go.

Bit of a weird thing going on with the thread dial indicator rotating when manually moving saddle but not when the half nut is engaged for power feed....would expect this or maybe its me still learning the ropes LOL

Many thanks for replies.....

I did take the cross slide off to have a look but still unable to move anything.

undid the 4 allen head screws on top of the Apron Assembly and that seperated the assembly just enough to allow me to move the power cross feed lever and also freed up the half nut lever. everything moved freely after that.

Put everything back and then looked at why Leadscrew was not rotating.

As Mike said the Leadscrew shear pin had done its job ! tried to punch this out all the way but really struggling to get the bit out that is embedded in the leadscrew shaft.

The Grizzly Manual says you can hammer it out while leadscrew is in place but wondering is it better to get the lead screw off and try hammer it out then so not to cause damage to the connecting cover and gear box bits and bobs.

ps Sorry .... another quick question when you fit the high speed belt on the pulleys (the one they leave in the box when you get the lathe delivered) are you supposed to take off the low speed belt or can you leave it on....reason being that there seems to be an awful lot of heat generated under the cover and the aluminium pulleys seem very hot so not sure if this is normal.

Thanks again

Matt

Edited By Matt Homer 1 on 13/06/2015 14:41:07

Hi,

Just had my new WM250V lathe.

...unfortunatley I recently did a power crossfeed oepration that went the full extent of its travel and ground to a halt.

can't unlock the cross slide power feed handle or the carriage half nut lock.

can't reverse out or manually wind out the crossslide and the carriage/saddle is very stiff to move now.

Any idea's ??

planning on undoing the Gib screws on crossslide to see if that will help.

Thanks

Matt