Seeking advice from knowledgeable machinist / gunsmith.
Recently picked up a well tooled little King Canada 10x22” lathe to replace the gearhead I sold a few years back.
Decent little hobby lathe.
While it only has a MT4 spindle with a 1” thru bore I would like to machine a spider for it.
As is common with these style lathes the rear of the spindle uses 2 threaded lock rings to secure the spindle pulley and set the backlash.
This leaves very little thread to attach a threaded spider.
Any thoughts on whether it would be ok to remove one of the lock rings to free up more thread and the use the threaded on spider to act as a replacement of the removed lock ring kinda like acting as a jam nut on the first lock ring?
Plan to machine the spider from SS.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Recently picked up a well tooled little King Canada 10x22” lathe to replace the gearhead I sold a few years back.
Decent little hobby lathe.
While it only has a MT4 spindle with a 1” thru bore I would like to machine a spider for it.
As is common with these style lathes the rear of the spindle uses 2 threaded lock rings to secure the spindle pulley and set the backlash.
This leaves very little thread to attach a threaded spider.
Any thoughts on whether it would be ok to remove one of the lock rings to free up more thread and the use the threaded on spider to act as a replacement of the removed lock ring kinda like acting as a jam nut on the first lock ring?
Plan to machine the spider from SS.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.