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How true was where most items you turned/what was the runout like?

How did it turn out? thinking of doing it on my lathe but wanted to see if anybody else has dont it/has any tips

Has anybody ever tried using mt3 Collets in the lathe instead of a chuck?

London ON. and thanks man

Just finished measuring the back plate more and the bore of the mt3 taper. All the important surfaces are within 0.0004"" at max others where 0.0001" . So with that guessing its fair to say its the 3 jaw chuck? Going to be getting a 4" 3 Jaw chuck anyways so hopefully its got slightly better runout

an very quick measurement showed the backplate was withi 0.002" going to take some more time tomorrow to measure it and a few other things with my Dial Test indicator as its more accurate the the indicator I used today. one thing I was wondering is would taking the 3 jaw apart cleaninging it and...

I checked and the runout was 0.0005" but I didnt check if it was square or not ill check that for sure. Was really wierd as i thught they should be 0.003 at max run out with the stock 3" 3 jaw

Checked the run out of the stock 3 jaw with a precision bar thats machined to 0.0002 runout max. and found the best I could get the runout to was 0.009 which doesnt seem right atall any ideas?

Thanks for the reply's Everybody. One thing I was wondering is I got a backplate to put a 4 inch 3 jaw on, will doing this possibly increase any runout the machine has?

Hey everybody, I am still pretty new here but trying to get more involved. Just a bit about me, I am an apprentice Tool and Die Maker, have been machining for a decent amount of time. Anyways Today I picked up a 7 x 12 Mini lathe from my local busy bee tools. I had a 7 x 8 but found it a bit to...

Does anybody know if the Nut for the feed screw is suppost to be made out of brass?

Thank you, Yep the feed screw and nut are done, One thing I am wondering is should the Nut be made out of brass? mine wasnt :( I went into busy bee today and they are ordering a new feed screw and nut in from there warehouse for me so should hopefully be in next week still sucks my mill will be...

Hey everybody, well yesterday i was using my x2 mini mill from busybee tools and the y axis completely siezed up. I mean completely stuck cant move it in any direction no matter how much force you put on it, I checked the gibs they were not to tight, i checked the table locks they were not...

Thanks for the reply, I will have to look into that for sure. Only issue I think I will run into is the Gibs on my lathe I dont think are the same as what usually on a 7x lathe. Anybody have measurements of there gibs by any chance so I can see if mine are the same?

So what kind of mods will make the lathe more accurate and more sturdy? P.S. Cost isnt that important tbh plan on putting a decent amount of cash into getting all set up