The troublemaker
Sometime early summer chips started to spit out of the gearbox on my big lathe with no apparent reason. When inspecting the dammage, it turned out that one cog, and one axle with machined cog had been severly damaged. Luckily I managed to find new parts (for a lathe from '52!), but the reason for the whole incident was a mystery up until yesterday evening. Turned out that these two nuts had come loose, and then the inner one (towards the bracket) had thightened and then seized the whole threading axle. Which in turn transferred to the gearbox and ate the gears. One more problem to fix, but one mystery left to be solved.
The troublemaker
Sometime early summer chips started to spit out of the gearbox on my big lathe with no apparent reason. When inspecting the dammage, it turned out that one cog, and one axle with machined cog had been severly damaged. Luckily I managed to find new parts (for a lathe from '52!), but the reason for the whole incident was a mystery up until yesterday evening. Turned out that these two nuts had come loose, and then the inner one (towards the bracket) had thightened and then seized the whole threading axle. Which in turn transferred to the gearbox and ate the gears. One more problem to fix, but one mystery left to be solved.