LK&T
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Y'all know where this is going, so I'll just get to the nitty gritty. Lathe is a Jet 1015, non VS. Less than a couple years old. The past couple days I've picked up a loud, high pitched vibration when cutting towards the tailstock. There is no vibration or noise when cutting near the headstock, but as I move towards the tailstock it starts. Does it with roughing gouge, skew and scraper. It is dead repeatable. I've checked the live center, and I can't feel any roughness or play in the bearings. I cleaned the inside of the tailstock taper, cleaned the live center taper and checked them both for defect and found none. I took off the tailstock, cleaned the bottom, cleaned the bed, cleaned the banjo and gave everything a good look. Again, I found nothing suspect. Put everything back together and put in a live center that I know to be good. Still high pitched vibration. Sigh....... I can't get over that it's the live center. Up till now I've bought cheap live centers and I think that's the issue. Today I drove up to Grizzly and bought a Teknatool live center set. Didn't get to play with it today because I'm sick. No, not THAT. Just an everyday cold that's kicking my butt pretty hard. Felt like junk when I got home, so I didn't go to the shop. Anyway, I'll try it tomorrow and see what happens.
So, in case it's not the live center (which is a real possibility) what do you folks think? What's good to check next?
So, in case it's not the live center (which is a real possibility) what do you folks think? What's good to check next?