pm1127vf-lb

An appliance dolly was used to move the lathe bed into the basement. The rest of the lathe components were hand carried. Edit: added the chip tray weight and corrected the motor without pulley and the apron weights.

Decided to replace the compound slide on my PM1127 with a solid tool post mount for an Aloris AXA QCTP. Has virtually eliminated chatter (especially when parting off) and has allowed me to set tool offsets for each tool. I’m planning on using miteebite fixture clamps or something similar to...

How do you guys set the gear mesh on the change gears? I tried using a strip of regular paper between each gear but could tell the mesh was to tight. Took a lot of trial and error to get it right. Anyone have any tips or procedure that's quick and repeatable?