My old 6'' Student (round top) has a bit of a problem with the surfacing and sliding lever on the carriage. I've identified the carriage as T slotted. (from lathes.co.uk) The problem is that the lever is a bit reluctant to latch into place and sometimes drops out of engagement by gravity.
It's a bugger to see the mechanism because of the suds tray and I can't work out how to take it apart to work out what's gone wrong. Can anyone give me a quick idiot's guide how to get to this mechanism? The lathe's quite new to me, having replaced my old smaller Boxford, so I'm still learning!
Cheers Julian.