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The motor with both cast iron mounts should come out. There is a bolt in each corner of the lower castings.
Here is a photo of mine. Note the motor is rotated 90 degrees from its normal position.

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Rather than cut holes in your cabinet, just unbolt the entire motor mount. There is a bolt in each corner that fastens the mount to the cabinet.

There will always be backlash in any gear train. So long as the teeth are undamaged, you should be OK.

Hi Yes an halfway up the sight glass. I recommend you take off the front cover and clean out the gearbox. The gearbox has an opening at the back that allows dust to enter. You will probably find a lot of sediment. Also, once in a while, run the gearbox at full rpm to splash oil across all moving par...

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On the bottom of the gearbox casing, below the sight glass.

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You need to remove the motor and mount and relocate the motor further right to align the belt. That much misalignment will create a lot of rumbling noise, vibration and ruin the belt.
I have a genuine 1ph motor/pulley for sale but it is on the wrong side of the planet.

Hello I got all worried about using the correct lubricants when I rebuilt my lathe. I went as far as consulting a lubrication engineer from one of the major oil companies. Basically the best lubricants available at the time Viceroys were made are not as good as the lowest spec lubricants of today. I...

Hello I have found that a Denford is on the lower limits of power for driving carbide tools. Study the specifications of the tools you are using. You are likely to find that the minimum speeds and feeds for the tool equate to heavy cuts for a machine like a Denford. I wind up the speed and feed as m...

Hello The spindle bearings are standard Timken taper roller bearings. The same bearings are in common use on other applications (eg. Cessna aircraft wheel bearings). The inner and outer cones are ordered separately. Make sure you get the right version. Removing the spindle and bearings is not too di...

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I fitted a VSD to my Denford.
This included replacing the 1 phase motor with a 3 phase motor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJG5ohpvsVU

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Don't be afraid to open the gearbox. This is what you should find inside.
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Welcome to the forum.
Post lots of photos.

Hello Remove the end support on the right end of the lathe bed and simply slide the saddle off the end of the bed. I never removed the lead shaft/feed screw. I think that requires the gearbox to be disemboweled. I have been to a lot of places on the planet, but I haven't found anywhere else that I w...

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I read somewhere that someone else had tried to match the Denford blue. As I recall, they couldn't match the hammerite.

I have another lathe and had the local paint shop mix a match in enamel paint. It was perfect but it wasn't hammerite.

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I used aerosol chain lube on the headstock gears.
It resists throw off.

Hi On my lathe, I just opened up the bearings, inspected then cleaned them. The previous owner had changed them so I didn't need to. The bearings are relatively cheap and easily found. If you do change the bearings, properly seating the bearings back into the headstock is very important. Make sure t...

If your leadscrew is imperial and you have a 127 tooth gear, you can cut metric threads.
The range of metric threads you can cut will depend on the range of gears you have.

Hi I had some training when I was young but I am just a home work shop hack. First results weren't that good but with better steel and technique, things improved. I haven't seen your model but it looks like the top lever is for the back gear and the lower lever is spindle gear speed change. There is...

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I have gone the same path. Old but good.

You can see samples of my work on the projects forum here viewforum.php?f=14
The Viceroy is a very capable machine.

Hi I went down the same road after I brought my lathe. To do metric, you need a whole set of change gears plus a custom made banjo (cast and machined). After all that time and money, you only end up with a subset of metric threads. Somewhere on this site, I uploaded a spreadsheet calculator for impe...

Hi The big advantage with an imperial lathe is that you can make tools, chuck back plates and adapters that fit the spindle. The only time I have absolutely needed a metric thread was when I made an ER32 collet chuck. I had to get someone else to machine that. I don't think anyone has been able to g...