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I've always wondered about that cantilevered bed though. Why did they do it? Does it have any deleterious effect on the accuracy or rigidity of the lathe?
What I have been reminded of, off a user on here, is to be careful of fitting cheap critical parts that ultimately reduce the lathe from a fairly precise Cowells to a lesser lathe. I guess the lathe is only as good as the cheapest part. RDG tools do a 4 jaw with m14 thread for ?45!!! I must admit, I have considered how critical some things are with a 4 jaw only any misalignment would be taken up in centring the work anyway unlike for example a 3 jaw or collet chuck?!?
cut gears after returning from being hobbed
Just a quick question as I know we have quite a few Cowells users on here. I've been cutting mainly brass with the Cowells but when I Swap to steel, the belt is slipping with even the lightest of cuts! I've tried putting more tension on the belt but if you look at the belt setup in one of the earlier pictures, it seems like you put tension on the belts by screwing back the motor plate...pushing the whole setup back. I've tried this but it is still slipping! So much so, that it is unusable at the moment.