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A while ago I bought a secondhand Mondiale Celtic 14 lathe (http://www.lathes.co.uk/mondiale/page2.html).
The 3-phase engine was burned when the previous owner ran it on a wrong voltage. I had the engine rewired and reinstalled it and now it runs smooth.
It’s my first lathe and I know almost nothing of turning (except to be very careful).
There seems to be a problem with the autofeed. When I engage the autofeed it doesn't work.
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In the first half of the movie I manually turn the side of the engine and in the second half of the movie I manually turn the side of the autofeed. The big gear in the middle I think should do the transmission of the engine to the autofeed. According the manual there's also a safeguard when too much force is put on the autofeed a pen breaks. I checked the pen and its's ok.
On the right side of the big gear there's a round part and when I pushed against it with some thongs while the engine was turning I momentarily had engaged once the autofeed. Since then I couldn't reproduce this.
Here's an image from the manual showing the structure of the gears:
Does anybody have any suggestion to fix my problem ?
The 3-phase engine was burned when the previous owner ran it on a wrong voltage. I had the engine rewired and reinstalled it and now it runs smooth.
It’s my first lathe and I know almost nothing of turning (except to be very careful).
There seems to be a problem with the autofeed. When I engage the autofeed it doesn't work.
In the first half of the movie I manually turn the side of the engine and in the second half of the movie I manually turn the side of the autofeed. The big gear in the middle I think should do the transmission of the engine to the autofeed. According the manual there's also a safeguard when too much force is put on the autofeed a pen breaks. I checked the pen and its's ok.
On the right side of the big gear there's a round part and when I pushed against it with some thongs while the engine was turning I momentarily had engaged once the autofeed. Since then I couldn't reproduce this.
Here's an image from the manual showing the structure of the gears:
Does anybody have any suggestion to fix my problem ?
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