Lathe Reassembly Instructions

No immediate action needed; this is just a list of notes for how the lathe came apart for when we put it back together.

All of the lathe parts are on one of 4 pallets

  • The main lathe body is strapped to a pallet
  • The heavy chunks of lathe parts are all blocked onto a pallet (carriage, motor, tailstock, etc)
  • The lathe tooling + associated bits are in a grey bin with the table saw
  • The lathe lubricants / etc are in a box on the cabinet of doom (chemicals cabinet) pallet

Dissassembly notes (in disassembly order)

  • Removed feed rod and lead screw
    • Feed rod held on by two allen keys; backed off and rod slid out through bracket at right of lathe
      • shaft collar on feed rod removed
    • lead screw held on by brass-shear pin. Shear pin tapped out
    • lead screw/feed rod wrapped in shrink wrap and clamped (loosely) to pallet
    • shaft collar and brass pin bagged and attached to shafts on pallet.
  • Removed carriage (watch out its full of oil)
    • shaft end bracket needs to come off to remove carriage, it was put back on the lathe body
  • Disconnected forward-reverse switch ( I have pics of the wiring)
    • Hardware put back on forward-reverse switch. Switch is on pallet with major parts.
  • Removed motor (held on by two bolts + shaft with cotter pins)
    • hardware all put back on lathe