Posted by BillS on December 05, 2011 at 12:00:53:
In Reply to: Re: What is Barber Coleman lever for? posted by Drew on December 05, 2011 at 10:42:10:
Thanks Drew - especially regarding your experience in its use. For machines that still have the tag, it reads just as Drew described it - "Pull out for L-R Climb Cutting...". This text seems to say that, when pulled out, the table is loaded to remove feed screw backlash when "pulling" hob table from Left to Right (from headstock to center). Is that how you see it?
Enrique Cabrera emailed me some photos from a B-C manual. I'm posting them here (item 8 is what Drew is describing):
There are a number of items and controls explained that may be of interest to new owners of a B-C hobber.
Thanks to Enrique for the page photos.