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That's what first crossed my feeble mind. Making/finding cams seemed like a lot of work.

Worse comes to worst, cut one off a scrapped machine.

Never seen that. Isn't the locking mechanism an integral part of the spindle?

Sorta hazy about the bearing now. Been 30+ years since it went away. I think it was a barrel roller bearing. Had a jillion hours on it. Enough wear in the bearing to let the table move off center by about .015". Last straw was fucked up hole locations in a mold.

I had that exact table. Finally had to scrap it when the main table bearing became unobtainium. I mean no one makes that bearing or anything close enough to it to fit.......... even with modifying the housing and/or boss.

Got one on a 36" X 25' manual lathe. No problems.

Kwikway is specialized for boring engine cylinders. Does not have the strength to do much else. Besides the hassle of trying to set it up on anything other than a block. Keep it for your engine work and add the mill to your collection if everything on it works.

Those BH series are pretty damn good. Took us some 10 years to wear out a 30 year old chuck.

Bacon rinds work good on main and rod bearings. Straight from the mouth of the used car dealer who was a client of my dad, his CPA.

Sounds as bad as the GE 1050HL, my first cnc machine. Single line of Nexi tubes display.

Started my business when local NAPA store convinced me to buy his automotive machine shop. I quit my machine shop job and was able to sub work from them along with the engine work. Some nine months after opening, had a walk in from a newly opened rubber molding facility. That has turned...

Yeah, guy called and asked if I could install cam bearings in a Dodge V-8 block. Showed up yesterday with a dirty, greasy, nasty short block. No, I don't think I can install bearings until you bring me a clean bare block. Same engine that I removed broken exhaust manifold bolts from last...

Not from the OEM. 8.66 X 18.11 "machining envelope".

Think tailstock. Another two hours and I've got turret clocked to .001 TIR X and Y. I think it will work.

Not sure when the bolts broke the heads off. Either before I got the machine or a long time ago. Absolute. Part is 26" long. 6" swallowed up in chuck and spindle. Leaves about a 1/4 inch distance to home position.

Gone before I got the machine. Never trusted pins to line up on the money. Turret spins, pins get bent, holes wallered out. Fuck that, just leave 'em out.

Actually I had considered single blocking down to N60, popping out to edit, scrolling down to N240, back to auto and continue on. Wish I had done that now. Have spent 7 hours trying to get turret aligned. Not done yet. Squared up without incident, BUT.................................. turret...

Yeah, sitting on the throne this morning, I realized what happened. I guess I was thinking Fagor and GE 1050, where the profile is at the end of the program. now to get turret back.

Start of program. Positioned in N40, seemed normal until the tool went the wrong way. According to Fanuc manual when G70 is finished the program is supposed to advance to the next block.

0TC Running program using G71 canned cycle and G70 for finish path. Cut a little oversize. Wanted to just run the G70 cycle to see if it would clean up to size. Block deleted both G71 lines and away we go. Ran the G70 just fine until it got to the end of the profile. Instead of...