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Right this is what I have done, dunno if this is what or how it should have been done .

The red cap plays a part , I think it is a WD40 cap , but it has splines on the inside which help to centralised the shaft in the frame of the counter assembly part .

So , I undid all the bolts holding the counter shaft , thus the bearings as well , up .

Using the red cap centralising the shaft in the middle of the round bearing holder part of the frame to the counter assembly , then screwed in the bolts locking the top one off and the bottom one tight , did not have a lock nut on bottom . Then did the same to the one next to the big pulley wheel to the motor.

Found some holes on the bearings for oil , set them so they are pointing up so you can put oil in , but my , what I thought was thin enough oil can , does not fit in-between the pulleys and frame . It is really tight but can see a drop or two going in and that seem to be enough to get rid of the high pitch metal squeaking noise and big pulley to motor not getting as hot but still warm? , belt to motor does not seem to be too tight .

I have not taken the big pulley to the motor , off . Which I think is how you would take the belt off or put on , but how to take that wheel off is the question.

Thing I am worried about is , having turned the bearing , bolts holding rhe bearing , they are not sitting in a recess , which I think they where before , which is why I wanted to take it all apart because I do not like these unknowns

Hi pics of the lathe - https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/albums/member_album.asp?a=59528

Hi ,
Hope your all well .
I was hooping to get a little help , with my Perfecto lathe , which is meant to be a copy of Myford ML4 .

I bought the lathe in 2016 . I had to put it together to get it running , which I did . But now I have forgotten how to do things .

At the moment I want to take the counter shaft off to see the bearings , well actually I want to oil them as they start to make a squeaky noises and get back to turning.

But anyway I want to take the counter shaft off to see the bearings . Problem I am having is I can not seem to take it apart , the pulley for the motor does not seem to want come off . nor does the pulley for the lathe shaft.

O put a new V belt on back in 2016 so I know it comes off but can not remember how .

Please can someone help

I have photos in here , but can not seem to add them to this