Understanding Gear Charts - Grizzly G0773 Owner's Manual

Understanding Gear
Charts
This subsection explains how to understand the
feed and thread charts on the headstock. If you do
not understand lathe gear charts, or need a quick
refresher, read this before configuring the end
gears for power feeding or threading operations.
Feed & Thread Charts Label
The feed and thread charts label (see Figure 51)
provides information for setting up end gears for
threading or non-threading operations. The top
displays metric and inch thread charts, the bottom
displays a feed chart.
Gearbox
Dials
Figure 51. Feed and thread charts label.
Feed Chart—Displays gearbox dial positions for
different speeds of automatic feed (power feed)
used with turning operations (see Figure 52).
Figure 52. Feed chart.
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Feed & Thread
Charts Label
Thread Charts—Display headstock end gear
positions used for cutting various metric or inch
threads (see Figure 53).
Figure 53. Threading charts.
Model G0773 (Mfd. Since 4/17)