Morning all
Does anyone have any experience with the LMS 3536 8 x 16 HiTorque Bench Lathe? I bought one for the lab at work and so far it's been a great little machine, nice to have power cross feed. So far the cuts I've made with it have been very accurate and it's a solid little machine weighing over 200 lbs. The only problem I have found with it is getting a tool shank out of the tailstock quill. I put a chuck with a #2 Morse taper in the quill, when I tried to get it out by cranking the quill back all the way it did not pop out. I emailed LMS and got a quick repsonse from Chris (great service by the way) saying to disassemble the the tailstock and use a pin through the quill to get it out. Don't really want to do that every time I need to change tailstock tooling. I'm thinking about putting a pin in there so when the quill is retracked the tool arbor will hit the pin and pop out. Has anyone every encountered this?
Thanks in advance
Ben
Does anyone have any experience with the LMS 3536 8 x 16 HiTorque Bench Lathe? I bought one for the lab at work and so far it's been a great little machine, nice to have power cross feed. So far the cuts I've made with it have been very accurate and it's a solid little machine weighing over 200 lbs. The only problem I have found with it is getting a tool shank out of the tailstock quill. I put a chuck with a #2 Morse taper in the quill, when I tried to get it out by cranking the quill back all the way it did not pop out. I emailed LMS and got a quick repsonse from Chris (great service by the way) saying to disassemble the the tailstock and use a pin through the quill to get it out. Don't really want to do that every time I need to change tailstock tooling. I'm thinking about putting a pin in there so when the quill is retracked the tool arbor will hit the pin and pop out. Has anyone every encountered this?
Thanks in advance
Ben