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Had a look this morning. Noticed that the tailstock was out of alignment by 5 mm to the headstock????
this was putting pressure on the bearing and making it slow to start under high speed lower torque.
Lucky i have 2 CL3 lathes and just swapped the tailstock over to the one i use regular and now it works, however the lathe still has to be started with no tailstock pressure on the bearing and once started only then can i tighten the tailstock to the blanks and start to turn.

How can the tailstock be out of alignment ??, when i tightened banjo the tailstock moved out of alignment even more, putting more presssure on the bearing.

[QUOTE="johnny5, post: 140798, member: 284"] Had a look this morning. Noticed that the tailstock was out of alignment by 5 mm to the headstock???? this was putting pressure on the bearing and making it slow to start under high speed lower torque. Lucky i have 2 CL3 lathes and just swapped the tailstock over to the one i use regular and now it works, however the lathe still has to be started with no tailstock pressure on the bearing and once started only then can i tighten the tailstock to the blanks and start to turn. How can the tailstock be out of alignment ??, when i tightened banjo the tailstock moved out of alignment even more, putting more presssure on the bearing. [/QUOTE]

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