Todays Project - What did you do today?

[f350ca]

Had a fairly major wreck.
Was truing up these spools, wheel spacers for the mule, when it decided to come out of the chuck. Still not sure why, was taking a light cut, maybe a hard spot in the weld.



When it came out it jammed against the tool post and pushed the compound back, I always run the compound parallel to the bed for fine feed.
Result was a broken casting that holds the two brass nuts and a very bent screw.



Was quite a wallop, and theres no slowing down or stalling a 10 hp motor with the spindle at 200 rpm.

May check on the price of the parts but will probably make them, (isn't that why we have tools) Only glitch is I'll have to put the compound back together and jam it with the gib to use the lathe, the screw is 5 tpi looks like square thread of some sort and the Hardinge will only go to 11 tpi without a bunch of change gears.
One step forward two steps back.