Thread: New old lathe

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Nice.
My workmate had two small myfords clutering up my shed when he was living at mine, he had the bed of one ground surprisingly the headstock bearings were still pretty good but they may have been done peviously a few times.
As is the case with virtually all lathes they wear a hollow in the bed where the carrage is close to the chuck where 90% of the work is done which you may not care about for what you are going to do with it or it may be fine as is

Yes, that is definitely the place that takes the wear. Still miss my old lathe, bigger and stronger with a reasonable 38mm bore. This thing has a bore that small you may as well consider it not to have one.