Harbor Freight Tools 45861 Lathe User Manual


 
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Direction Switch
Belt
Tension
Lever
Do not change the
Direction Switch
rotation while running Lathe.
Feed Rate
1. The Feed Rate Lever (above) chang-
es the number of threads-per-inch
(TPI) that can be cut. The plate on
the machine and the following charts
list typical settings.
40
80
40
127
a
c
b
Feed rate portion of machine plate
Lever 9 1 9 1 1
a 28 28 28 28 45
b 80 80 60 60 60
c 80 80 120 120 120
Feed 0.0023 0.004 0.005 0.008 0.013
During metric thread cutting the half 2.
nut must remain engaged through
entire threading process. The thread
dial cannot be utilized.