Help fixing my lathe...(Painful experience: may cause discomfort to some machinist's)

[Noone]

Hi,

Quite a while back (going on a year) I was doing some machining on my recently purchased mini lathe from Amadeal here in the UK.

Not having used a lathe in quite a long time left power feed on and crunch, straight into the headstock stripped thee teeth of plastic gears.

Whilst reasonably cheap to get the spare parts putting it back together has been a challenge especially with limited time and an exceptionally large order of things going on (leaks, mainly leaks... I would have to say this is the single largest contributor). I have been stuck on the last part for some months now of realigning the belt with the head stock and would appreciate any help on this...

Below are some images of the lathe...

I apologise for the poor quality and excessively large photo's... I lent my decent camera to someone this week who has gone of walking in Scotland and I am stuck using a friends camera phone being the only person in the entirety of the world not to have a mobile/cell phone... I am not sure how to set different image sizes and my computer with the Photoshop for scaling photo's properly and reducing the noise is currently down as the motherboard fried (not due to leak thankfully but getting Asus to replace it is just one of thing I am trying to compete with)...

First time in an absolute age I have had time to look at it and would love attempt to fix it with remaining time this weekend.

The very kindest of thanks.

[blades]

Really hard to tell from the pics, but why is the motor sitting at such an angle? What's causing this? Is it not attached to the mounting bracket?

[Noone]

Firtsly thanks for your prompt reply. My camera returns tommorow but I daare say my window of oporunity of fixing it may finish before I get chance to post new photos.

The motor is atatched by two threaded studs which are placed in the slotted grooves on the bed see last picture. Setting the right angle is the problem as well as the tension. The reason for the extreme angle at the moment is the studs are slack and this is just how it is resting. I can not seem to get the motor high enough and at the right angle which I presume is parrallel to the bed and more importantly the headstock.

Like I said I really am exceptionally gretaful for your reply and hope you or someone can help me. I really hope I am not the only one to have ever done this :|...

[WaveDude]

This may or may not help:

http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_lathe...htm#Belt_align

[Noone]

Thanks you hugely... I think it is now sorted... I still have the tailstock to try and sort which was never right but that is for another time...

Thanks once again...