Todays Project - What did you do today?

[oldgoaly]

I've been thinking on some things I need to do to the 12" Atlas/CM lathe, a splash / swarf guard for the motor is one and how to store face plates and chucks handy. Well came up with a idea wood pin with a metal center screw to hold face plates and not damage the threads. So I cut a couple of pcs of hard pine dowel rod, chucked it up in the lathe, move the carriage then back out the cross feed and it's stuck! what the heck???? it hasn't done that even when it was piled full of swarfs. This cleaning of things is biting me in the butt big time. I pushed and pulled the power cross feed knob thinking I may have done something while putting the splash pan in. Now to dig the book out on it and see if something looks out of place????