Thanks, but you must be thinking about the silver ones that has 6 screws on the top, holding the indicator case together. Mine is the Model 6A and there are no screws.
If mine just screwed together, I would have already done what you are suggesting,
Any one else know someone doing repairs/cleaning on these? I need this back up and on the lathe ASAP. The dial that comes on the grizzly lathe is totally inaccurate.
As simple as these are (the silver one has 25 pieces, ( 1/4 of them screws) and they cost like $750 new and the company won't sell ya parts to fix them and want nearly half the price of a new one just to clean / repair yours. Sounds like a racket to me. I can't believe the Chinese haven't at least made one similar, that doesn't infringe on SWI copyright/patent (like they care) and sell them for a legitimate price, like $100 or so.