Member postings for James Montgomery 1

Welcome. The CVAs are a joy to use. To remove the sight glasses you need a tool with 3 pins to insert into the sight glasses holes. The tool allows you to rotate and carefully extract them. They are just a push fit, not screwed. Alternatively (very carefully) use a pin spanner. See here for info:

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Morning,

I have what I thought was a D1-3 chuck with intergral backplate, but the stud threads and holes are the wrong size. Does anyone have any ideas. Pictures below.

Trevor,

As others have said you’ll have the grind down the post on that style of compound slide. The alternative is to buy a compound slide with a tee slot, but they’re pretty rare to find by all accounts!

Monty

This is my first post on the forum, so apologies if I've picked the wrong section. I've recently acquired a 3 phase RJH Linisher which works well, save for a slightly (well, actually very) worn drive belt. In the belt's current state I am struggling to measure it up to order a replacement. I wonder if anyone has one of these machines who knows the correct drive belt size / profile, or if not, could offer some guidance on how to measure from the pulleys the correct size to order? I am assuming from the pulley I could estimate the drive belt width and depth and then run string between the two pulleys to give me the correct length. Does that sound right? I am also aware that the belt will have stretched over time. My current belt: