Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com ([24.93.67.83] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.5) with ESMTP id 2626358 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:41:47 -0400 Received: from nc.rr.com (cpe-024-211-190-025.nc.rr.com [24.211.190.25]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h96Lbikt003059 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F81DF7C.9040004@nc.rr.com> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 17:32:44 -0400 From: Ernest Christley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Mill Drill and Lathe References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael D. Callahan wrote: > I also have that little Jet 9x20 lathe at home. After having trouble > getting the three jaw chuck to repeat with any degree of accuracy, I took it > apart to see what was wrong. Nearly every screw in it was loose. I then went > over the entire lathe and found the same thing. I recently decided to tweak > the Grizzly mill at the museum and found it the same way, plus a lot of sand > left over from casting that was working its way into the moving parts. Same > thing with that 3in1 I had. The import tools just don't measure up. Q/C in a > slave labor camp just ain't that good. Parts are hard to get and may take > months to arrive, if you can get them at all. I consider any tool I buy at Harbor Freight to be incomplete. The first thing to do is take it apart and true up all the pieces and then put it back togther, using shim or new holes where necessary. -- http://www.ernest.isa-geek.org/ "Ignorance is mankinds normal state, alleviated by information and experience." Veeduber