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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.
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