I’ve just started scraping the top slide to my lathe and noticed an interesting wear pattern. The high spots here are directly where the top slide bolts to the cross slide.
I know when we machine automotive engine parts, such as heads or blocks, we normally clamp a “torque plate” onto them, to simulate the actually mating parts in a stressed assembly.
All metals deform under load, it’s just question of how much.
I’m most certainly NOT a machine tool rebuilder, this is literally the first machine tool I’ve repaired, so I don’t really know how professionals deal with these issues.
I don’t know, the tension on the cross slide nuts was clearly enough to distort this part enough to alter the wear pattern where it contacts the top slide. I’m sure on a entry level class lathe like my Clausing, it probably wouldn’t matter. I’m just kind of curious how high end machines like say a Monarch are built / scraped.
I know when we machine automotive engine parts, such as heads or blocks, we normally clamp a “torque plate” onto them, to simulate the actually mating parts in a stressed assembly.
All metals deform under load, it’s just question of how much.
I’m most certainly NOT a machine tool rebuilder, this is literally the first machine tool I’ve repaired, so I don’t really know how professionals deal with these issues.
I don’t know, the tension on the cross slide nuts was clearly enough to distort this part enough to alter the wear pattern where it contacts the top slide. I’m sure on a entry level class lathe like my Clausing, it probably wouldn’t matter. I’m just kind of curious how high end machines like say a Monarch are built / scraped.