Thanks. There's no play, they've been greased regularly but there is a lot of noise, even with the tumbler out - Hard to tell if it's the bearings or the internal gearing. Nothing runs really hot either just that the noise upsets me. I did run it slowly and pump grease through slowly until it looked...

Found some posts from 2009 (Dazz?) which are w a good start. Of course the lathe is close to a wall which means swinging it out... and the mill is in the way

Hi, I would appreciate any guidance and tips on checking and replacing the headstock bearings on my metric screw cutting Viceroy. No model plate, only a serial number on the bed. My greasing of the headstock bearing now produces greyish grease from the nose bearing. Some swarf did find its way behin...

If you can make these change wheels, I could do with a 34T wheel to get closer to 24TPI.

If anyone is interested I can send you a spreadsheet which shows all mm pitch and TPI threads possible with the standard (16,18,22,24,26,27 and 35 T change wheels) and other settings.