Jet lathe question

Re: Jet lathe question

Mark Kauder, Phenix City, AL

>Keith,

Turn the tailstock handle as though you were moving it away from the headstock, eventually it will self eject the live center.

Mark

Re: Jet lathe question

Jim Rutten

>Keith,

Don't know if this is the case, but there is a shoulder in there that you have to get past in order to knock the center out of the headstock. You just have to feel around until you get right in the middle. If that doesn't work, Woodcraft has their "tommy bars" on sale this month.

Re: Jet lathe question

Charles Bjorgen

>You don't want to use the knockout bar on the revolving center because you'll probably knock out the point from the revolving center unit. I forgot about this myself last weekend during cleanup after one of my local club's hands-on sessions. Using a magnet, I finally found the point embedded down below the ways of the lathe but meanwhile, I spent considerable time sifting through lots of shavings looking for the point.

As others have suggested, the unit is self-ejecting by winding the quill back into the tailstock. If this doesn't work, you may need to realign the groove in the quill with the locking screw. My first lathe, a Delta Midi, worked the same way.

Thanks

keith zimmerman, Normal IL

>the self ejection process worked.

Thanks all