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That's a hell of a deal with all the tooling and accessories. Lee Casto

Prather. Lee Casto

Tommy, That's great to know on the chapstick. What in the world made you even think of using chapstick, lol. I'm gonna check into the waylube everyone mentioned. When testing/checking/playing with the power feed, I am using a tattoo power supply. I tested the speed on a 24" section of the...

Prices ?? Lee Casto

Thanks Joey. I understand now that I read shakes explanation and then your confirmation. I know you don't HAVE to have power feed to taper, but it has to make it easier and since that costs less than taper bars, being unemployed at the time, I'm doing my additions one at a time from the cheapest...

Wow !!!! I can't believe this hasn't sold almost immediately. Beautiful work Andy !!! For anyone with any doubts or reservations, I have purchased a cabinet from Andy and man oh man it is fricking NICE !!! Top notch work all the way around. Delivered across country with ZERO damage, hell, he...

Joey, Can you possibly explain or elaborate on this for me ?? What does a stepper motor have to do with tapering ?? Once I add taper bars to the lathe I should be able to taper using the power feed motor, shouldn't I ?? I have it hooked to a tattoo power supply and can adjust it from a dead...

Are you gonna share what you're smoking or keep it all to yourself,lmao. :grin: I'm just messing with ya........ I see them too. :)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year to you too Jim. Thanks for all your help. Lee Casto

Hmmmmm. I am needing TWO forearms myself but nothing as fancy as these. I'll send ya a PM. Lee Casto

Thanks to EVERYONE who replied, suggested, recommended, sent me PM's, etc.... I made ALOT of changes/adjustments yesterday messing with the power feed, but it does seem I had the pinion gear too far in and was hitting the back wall of the lathe (as Todd pointed out from my pics). After making...

Frank...... the dovetail is aluminum. Or at least I'm pretty sure it is because it's not that heavy. I had actually never heard of cleaning/lubing the carriage or bed until I read Kim's thread on cleaning HIS lathe. I saw he mentioned about installing the delrin gib so I bought one too, to see...

Some pictures just for reference in case anybody needs to see what I am up against. YES, I know there are scratches on the underside where the pinion gear rides up against the lathe BUT those were there when I bought the lathe used. It is VERY possible that they have gotten worse since I have...

When I FIRST tried it, it ran several passes down the lathe with no problems, then all this started when just doing some test runs to get my speed down correctly. During initial testing, the FASTEST it would move the carriage is 24" in 22 seconds, the SLOWEST it would move the carriage is 24" in...

Chris, I do have a lock down bracket, it's just not in the picture I took. It holds the powerfeed motor very straight and stable. Your statement about the pinion gear too deep in the rack makes sense, although I have adjusted the eccentric over and over trying to get it right.

Jim, I have NO load on the carriage at all, I am just doing test runs to see and make sure it was working. Hell, I even took off the slide and compound slide and am using JUST the carriage with nothing on it at all.

LOL. Not at all offended Jim and I agree with you but there are too many people using a powerfeed system on a Taig lathe for it to not be doable. Looks like my issues are starting sooner than later. How else is everyone else (that uses a Taig lathe) traveling the carriage down the lathe bed...

Here is a pic of what I am using. I have tried the flex coupling that is attached and also the delrin coupling sitting next to it, thinking the flex coupling had too much flex. The delrin coupling gave it zero flex but it didn't help my problem. Lee Casto

Kim, I didn't buy THIS motor but I am using the same exact Dayton DC motor, which from my searching, research, and speaking with Todd, it is the same motor that is commonly used for powerfeeds. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231089711173?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

:confused: I'm not really sure how to ask this question.... or even WHAT question to ask, so I'm going to explain my problem and hopefully some of yall out there have run into this before or might have a recommendation for me. Here is my problem. I added powerfeed to my lathe a week or so ago...