Needed - Atlas 12" Lathe Tailstock Quill / Ram / Barrel / Spindle

[rsterne]

It was in good shape, and removing the handle is how you get it out.... already did that....

Bob

[Bill Shields]

Duh

[rsterne]

I repaired my lathe today.... Bored out the quill and inserted a new Acme threaded brass bushing with Loctite 638.... It turns out that the difficulty I had drilling those Metric bolts was partly the threads in the process of stripping.... The repaired lathe drilled them no problem, with HSS drill bits.... ::)

Thank you to all here for your advice, much appreciated....

Bob

[SteveM]

Bronze is one of the few metals that works well sliding against other metals (cast iron is another one).

Joe Nelson's "So you want to build a steam locomotive" had a great chart showing which metals against which metals were bad to good. Worst was probably aluminum on aluminum.

Bronze was good with everything, IIRC.

Steve

[rmac]

Joe Nelson's "So you want to build a steam locomotive" had a great chart showing which metals against which metals were bad to good. Worst was probably aluminum on aluminum.

Look here for a similar chart (and lots of other related info, too) if you don't happen to have that book.

-- Russell Mac

[SteveM]

Look here for a similar chart (and lots of other related info, too) if you don't happen to have that book.

That's useful, but I think that Nelson's chart took into account that some materials were bad because they galled.

I think I need to make my next pistons out of diamond

Steve