Is anyone interested in having a Saturday session on Lathe Maintenance?

In the past couple of weeks we’ve had problems with two of the club lathes: the Coronet was overheating and making funny noises, and the the motor bracket on the M950 broke just before my demo was due to start last Tuesday! Fortunately a bit of oil in the right place and a new motor bracket fitted and both are now up and running again.

While we had the M950 in pieces, I thought it was really interesting to see how the gearing mechanism worked and it struck me that it might be worth spending a day taking all the club lathes apart with the aim of cleaning them up, making sure they’re running properly and getting to learn and understand how each of them work.

Maybe everyone could bring their chucks along and we could have a go at those as well!

What does everyone think?