Adjustments strips

[atlas1302]

Hallo I want to upgrade my lathe Ferm 350, I found out that the adjustment strip are not so cool. It is very difficult to find new strips, so I have to do it by myself
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What suggestion there are for this problem.

[JohnHaine]

Do you mean the gib strips? What is wrong with the existing ones?

[mekanik]

Might be helpful if you could show us were they are located, so we can better help

[atlas1302]

Might be helpful if you could show us were they are located, so we can better help

The guide strip is heavily corroded, as the photo also shows.
The strip is also fragile in size, and the spindle bolts do not seem to have any grip.

[JohnHaine]

The guide strip is heavily corroded, as the photo also shows.
The strip is also fragile in size, and the spindle bolts do not seem to have any grip.

What are the spindle bolts? Photo again please. What do you mean "fragile in size"?

What you call a guide strip is usually called a "gib strip" and it allows the fit of the dovetail slide to be adjusted. Normally it is a slightly loose fit between the slide and the carriage casting and lightly clamped by a row of small screws along the edge of the slide to take out any play yet allow smooth movement.

Try carefully removing the corrosion with fine abrasive paper then check the fit again. Does the strip have angled edges at 60 degrees? (This is normal). Making new ones requires a milling machine to form the angle so better to use the ones you have if you can. That lathe is available under other names so you may be able to get spares.

[atlas1302]

And because that guide rib is heavily corroded, it is hardly possible to adjust it properly.
The points of the adjustment screws must be placed properly into the guide rib; usually, there is a clear locating hole where the screw is adjusted.

These holes are barely there anymore; it looks like a non-original guide rib, and I have decided to buy a new piece of bronze and make a new one out of it. Sanding won't do the trick anymore; the photo clearly shows that.