Brass nut for the compound slide - Mini lathe modification

Part 1 - making the bearing block:    • Bearings for the mini lathes compound...  

While working on the new bearing block for the mini lathes compound slide (see part 1) it turned out, that the spindle is not exactly positioned in the center of the part but a little bit off-center. The new made bearing block was designed for a centric spindle so I decided to adjust the casting. I bored out the casting in its exact center and made a new nut from brass which gets screwed into the casting. Now its all centric and we have a nut which can easily be replaced if needed.

-Watch part 1 for getting all jokes.

Keep in mind, due to very limited resources, I have to improvise a lot and go unconvenient ways which may upset some of the "real machinists" out here.
Hope - with some creativity - in the end come to good resoults anyway.


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