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I love my lathe. It has got me out of a couple of problems when doing "minor" repairs to my car.
The first one was changing the brake pads on the car (too late). The discs were badly scored. They came off the wheel easy so I stuck them in the lathe. They ran true so I just gave them a light skim with a tipped tool and smoothed them with emery paper. Worked perfectly.
The second was much more complicated. My son broke an axle in the car. I got the new one OK but could not get the broken piece out of the diff. The diff. was part of the rear axle housing but could be accessed OK by removing the cover. The crown wheel assembly was easily removed to remove the broken piece but I decided to replace the bearings. There is no adjustment for the mesh except by spacers of varying thickness (made from cast iron). Unfortunately I dropped one and it broke.
Sunday afternoon! I need the car on Monday morning. What to do! A search through the scrap box produced a lump of steel. I miked the broken bits and made a new spacer on the lathe .
I reassembled the diff. and put the axles back in and did a road test. The whine that had been in the diff.(worn bearing) had gone and everything seemed OK. Three years later (80,000 miles) I traded the car in on a new one.
Barry
PS The car was a HG Holden 308 V8
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