New Guy, New Lathe, need a little help.

Here are a couple pics. It was not installed when i got my lathe so I have no advise on this but I do have a camera and if you would like some other pics, let me know.
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Iron-Iceberg said:
Ok I have a question on the variable-drive. I’ve looked over many threads and haven’t found an answer to my question so here it goes.
First I bled this thing every way I could find Instructions too. I gave up and ordered new seals and packing. It has the newer, I think, unit with the square master cylinder not the round one. After the new seals and bleeding it again I think I finally got it working good.
However I can not get the dial to match the speed of the belt. After a couple of days looking at it I decided to take the top of the variable-drive apart and try to figure it out.


Thanks for any help.
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I owned the same lathe for 20 years, it is a mechanical V- belt driven variable speed drive and therefore will be inconsistent by its very nature. If you are a modern person that requires fixed speeds you will be disappointed.

The answer is, you can not control the speed of the spindle using a V-belt drive without a control and feedback such as an encoder. You may spend the rest of your natural lifespan trying to get such a simple drive to run at +- 10 RPMs from the indicated speed (-:
 
Thanks so much Dhectorfor taking the time to take those pictures. That looks exactly the same as mine. I’m going to have to look else where.
 
Mitch Alsup said:
This looks to be the tailstock stop.
There will be a threaded hole near the end of the bed if I am correct.
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No idea. It was installed in the hyd part when I got it. Its been laying around since I got it. Looked at my lathe and didnt see any threaded hole on the bed. Not sure.
 
It’s a dead ringer for the pushrod on the variable drive. See my picture above. It’s good to know mine had the stock pushrod and master. Thanks Again.
 
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