Atlas gear tolerences?

[Bill C.]

When I was in highschool school class we had to change gears in order to change feed rates. We would bring the idle gear(s) together with enough clearance to be able to barely rock the gear train when moved by hand. It took practice to get that feel. Those were well used lathes that were baby by the students.

Also if your machine has a back gear for slower rpms that range is always noisy.

 

[littlejack]

Any time on the sound effects. You ought to hear my go-rilla mating call. LOL WHOOOOOuP, WHOOOOOuP. Something like that.
You have to use the lower case "u" to get the right effect. Still LOL

Bill, the lathe does have the back gears. They are actually relatively quiet compared to the "sound effects"
Jack