Thanks for the comments on the gears. I thought it best to stay with
the plastic gears for reasons mentioned in this thread.
At some point, I may go with the 16" bed that LMS offers to upgrade
my 7x10. The bed was out of stock when I checked the other day.
Stan
On 3/16/22 18:49, mike allen wrote:
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??? ??? Plastic gears don't disintegrate like Zamak gears
??? animal
On 3/16/2022 11:51 AM, Bruce J wrote:
This! the plastic gears are much easier to replace than metal
parts of the lathe!
In one of his lathe videos Mr Pete mentions this
is one reason why they made the change gears for old Atlas
lathes out of Zamak: it was dead easy to cast very accurately
and it would be the weak point in case of a jam.
As to plastic gears, I
hate plastic. Now saying that, I have broken a plastic
gear due to my idiocy. If that plastic gear had not
broken, things would have turned out seriously badly.
--?
Bruce Johnson
"Wherever you go, there you are." B.
Banzai, PhD
