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Continuing to work on restoring this old South Bend lathe I picked up a couple of months ago. Finally have the cabinet stripped and repainted, and almost done with cleaning, stripping and repainting the various parts of the lathe itself. I'm about to mount the bed with it's legs back on the cabinet in preparation for putting it all back together and came across this gasket #51 in the parts catalog (pic below). It's described as "195x3 VEL. GASKET" in the key for the diagram.
There isn't one there now. Not clear where this is supposed to go, presumably between the leg and cabinet, but that seems it would make the bed and ways unlevel as it would raise the headstock side. Anyone know the function of this gasket and exactly where it goes? On the inside of where the leg sits on the cabinet, to stop oil from running off onto the undermount drive and motor?
edit: this is the underdrive cabinet model
There isn't one there now. Not clear where this is supposed to go, presumably between the leg and cabinet, but that seems it would make the bed and ways unlevel as it would raise the headstock side. Anyone know the function of this gasket and exactly where it goes? On the inside of where the leg sits on the cabinet, to stop oil from running off onto the undermount drive and motor?
edit: this is the underdrive cabinet model
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