Lathe Up and running

 Hi Everyone,

 Well the lathe is up and running again. Here's what went wrong:

The lathe has a series of pulleys that are held in place with very small screws called set screws. In the first photo below you can see the pulleys inside of the lathe housing.

In this second photo you can see a small black dot which is on one of the pulleys inside the housing. This black dot is the drill hole for the set screw.

 

The set screw hold the pulley in place while the motor is turned on and this all causes the wood attached to the lathe to spin in a circle. The pulley in the photo has two set screws and they have to be screwed in tightly.

What happened was the vibrations that the spinning causes, caused the screws to loosen and then fall out. So when I was working last week on a small box, it suddenly stopped turning while the electric motor keep on working.

So I got some replacement screws for it and used some Loctite to hold the screws in place. I let the Loctite dry for several days just in case and decided to give it all a go this morning.
 
I have another pizza server to make and I set aside a small piece of marble wood for that project. Since its small I decided to turn the handle for the server as a test project and it came out very well.

I had no vibrations and the wood turned true. I came out really nice. Here's a photos:

Marble wood is really wild looking wood and this is going to look great for this project.

I'll post some finish photos in a day or two.

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Now that the lathe is up and running I'm going to take a quick coffee break and go back outside and begin the music box project.

Stay Tuned.