Hi,
I recently acquired an old 100 Mk2 Clausing Lathe (At least thats what I can make out from looking at the Lathes.co.uk site). I am giving it a good clean and re-paint since its caked in grime and the pain is chipping and whomever repainted it before in its life decided it was a good idea to paint over some of the oiling points. I started with removing the tailstock, and I've got it all apart with the exception of the back wheel. The nut unscrews from the tailstock itself and the back wheel seems to be attached to a shaft that runs all the way through and is eventually the leadscrew which moves the tailstock spindle in & out. However I am stuck there as there seems to be a ring with a pin through it (looking at a slightly different manual of a later lathe version, the mk3a I believe since I cannot find anything on the mk2 version, and clausing themselves are not answering me (I need to email, living on the other side of the world means phoning them is pretty much impossible due to timezones). They call this pin a groove pin on the documents. Can I just knock this pin out? It seems pretty tight, I don't want to go mess up something by being too forceful.
I recently acquired an old 100 Mk2 Clausing Lathe (At least thats what I can make out from looking at the Lathes.co.uk site). I am giving it a good clean and re-paint since its caked in grime and the pain is chipping and whomever repainted it before in its life decided it was a good idea to paint over some of the oiling points. I started with removing the tailstock, and I've got it all apart with the exception of the back wheel. The nut unscrews from the tailstock itself and the back wheel seems to be attached to a shaft that runs all the way through and is eventually the leadscrew which moves the tailstock spindle in & out. However I am stuck there as there seems to be a ring with a pin through it (looking at a slightly different manual of a later lathe version, the mk3a I believe since I cannot find anything on the mk2 version, and clausing themselves are not answering me (I need to email, living on the other side of the world means phoning them is pretty much impossible due to timezones). They call this pin a groove pin on the documents. Can I just knock this pin out? It seems pretty tight, I don't want to go mess up something by being too forceful.