That's got to be the "back-gear" devise to slow the lathe 'way down. My
Atlas has a lever which engages the gear . . . some previous owner must have
removed your engagement works. You're gonna HAVE to have a book or you're
going to spend lots of time and math figuring out speeds.
Tony
> My 9"Logan lathe has a shaft with gears that I cannot figure out what to
do
> with. It is just behind the driven pulleys in the headstock, on a shaft
> parallel with the headstock and directly behind it. It has a large gear
> (~5") on the right side and a small gear on the left. Total length is
about
> 10".
> It does not mesh with any of the gears on the headstock, but it looks like
> it would. Judging by the size of the gears, I would suspect they are to
> provide lower shaft speeds. However, there appears to be no provision for
> bringing the gears into mesh.
> Can anyone tell me what I'm looking at and how it is used?
>
> Rex Burkheimer
> Fort Worth
> rex@txol.net
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