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scudderfish - 1/8/25 at 05:46 PM

There is play in my (cheap Chinese) lathe. Does anyone with something similar know which of the screws etc I can adjust for it?

Regards,
David

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PAULD - 1/8/25 at 06:31 PM

The grub screw with the lock nut on the cross slide is one, there should be another thats not visible under the compound slide. these push on the gib strip.


scudderfish - 1/8/25 at 08:19 PM

Thanks


scudderfish - 2/8/25 at 06:51 AM

I'd never heard of the term 'gib strip' so I went googling and ended up on this site https://www.mini-lathe.com/mini_lathe/Tuning/tuning.htm which seems to have all I need to make this thing actually work well. Thanks for the pointer Paul


coyoteboy - 5/8/25 at 08:36 AM

gib strips are a pain in the proverbial on my mill, they're either too tight or too loose, nowhere inbetween lol