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Thanks or the offer mimms2, but I've actually got three different sized dogs. What I'm missing is the studded faceplate that originally came with my lathe, see the circled item below. I can of course...

Hear! Hear! I've got the South Bend manual "How to Run a Lathe" which includes messing about with change gears.

Tony at lathes.co.uk recommends this manual for the Grayson type/generation of...

I can just put a bolt in the bare faceplate to solve that, for a copy of the arrangement in the picture, a worn out 3 1/2" chuck could also donate its back plate with the central mounting threads....

Yes, well spotted! A bit unusual, my lathe also has an unusual 8 t.p.i. lead screw and the gears run from 20 teeth to 65 teeth in increments of five. Playing with online gear calculators indicates...

I had a broken tooth on my Grayson lathe's 25-teeth screw cutting change gear. I replaced it with a stick weld blob filed down. Tedious filing... and the weld proved tougher to file than the...