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Hopefully it is not to worn and if it is I have a stick of white metal you can have to recast bearings and you can have the bed reground at any decent engine reconditioners.
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I've seen some closeups of the bed and it looks really good. These things are made very rigid. I've heard and seen a few of these run through a milling machine to check the bed and there was zero deflection along the entire length. They have a conical bearing in them so as it wears you just wind it in a little to remove any play and easy to machine up new ones. Making a replacement set will be a high priority.
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:)
Go the whole hog with a tredle wheel... Keep you fit for the hills
These are 4 pole 1400 Rpm motors
That lathe is older than my one by about 5-6 years and this one has been in the family for about 60 years. I can recall my old man having shit loads of steel for turning and every time we shifted it all had to go as well. He used to rewind electric motors on it as well. Mine is an Atlas and also has a heap of extra tools etc.
Its currently stripped down to replace bearings through out
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I have a small EMCO which is really just a larger jeweller's lathe but despite its size I have done some amazing things on it.
Would dearly love a larger big but just don't have room for one.