I’ll think about doing this myself. I need to go back and re-watch Mr. Pete’s videos on using a shearing tool. I tried it on my last lathe but even with a very tiny cut it wasn’t rigid enough and protested too much. I’m also lucky to live 15 minutes from a Metal Supermarket so I don’t need to order materials online.
When you first started turning the stock on the lathe I noticed one of the handles on your quick change gearbox bouncing around quite a bit. My PM-1236T does exactly the same thing and I've often wondered if I had a bent shaft in the gearbox. I'll worry about it less now that I've seen yours doing it as well!
I was also concerned about the carriage feed gearbox handle movement. Its more noticeable on my videos when I put them in fast motion. Evidently we are not alone. I saw where someone else on a forum mentioned their 1236T lathe does the same thing. Doesn't seem to effect its performance. I may contact PM to see if this is an issue.
I'm glad to see all this confirmation here. It prevented me from tearing into my gearbox to check for a bent shaft. Hopefully PM will have something to say as well.
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I’ll think about doing this myself. I need to go back and re-watch Mr. Pete’s videos on using a shearing tool. I tried it on my last lathe but even with a very tiny cut it wasn’t rigid enough and protested too much. I’m also lucky to live 15 minutes from a Metal Supermarket so I don’t need to order materials online.
When you first started turning the stock on the lathe I noticed one of the handles on your quick change gearbox bouncing around quite a bit. My PM-1236T does exactly the same thing and I've often wondered if I had a bent shaft in the gearbox. I'll worry about it less now that I've seen yours doing it as well!
I was also concerned about the carriage feed gearbox handle movement. Its more noticeable on my videos when I put them in fast motion. Evidently we are not alone. I saw where someone else on a forum mentioned their 1236T lathe does the same thing. Doesn't seem to effect its performance. I may contact PM to see if this is an issue.
Mine does this as well.
I'm glad to see all this confirmation here. It prevented me from tearing into my gearbox to check for a bent shaft. Hopefully PM will have something to say as well.
Good job with that. I really need to get around to this...
Speed it up. We do not need to see every rotation of every cut