Harrison L5 lathe rebuild

[TomG]

Nice job on the lathe Mick. I like the addition of the door and shelves in the headstock. A lot of these old lathes had dead space like that and it was a good idea to make use of it. Harrison definitely makes a sturdy machine. We had a 14" or 15" in college that I used quite a bit.

I'll have to admit that I've been guilty of the child labor thing myself, but it didn't work out very well. I once paid my son a nickel a piece to clean the paper and cosmoline off a set of pin gauges. About half way through the job, the little b*****d threatened to strike if I didn't renegotiate the rate. I refused and he walked. There are still some gauges in the set in their original wrapping.
I got even later on when he volunteered to scrape undercoating off my Chevelle. It turned into a much bigger job than he thought and I held him to his word.



Tom