Thread: New old lathe

Here's my old lathe



Shes pretty tired, the wear in the front headstock bearing causes a bit of chatter on larger pieces and when parting off. Fortunately the whole spindle/chuck/headstock assembly is so heavy it doesn't really affect turning of smaller peices. Long term I would like to get a better lathe or refurbish this one, but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. It would probably involve casting new bearings and bluing/scraping til the clearance was just right.