Harbor Freight 7x12 Mini-Lathe

[EdK]

(06-13-2021, 10:56 PM)Highpower Wrote:

(06-13-2021, 07:15 PM)Vinny Wrote: Holy crap!  Ed's machine's dirty!  It's been swarfed!

I'll bet it didn't stay that way for long though.  

Ed, how did the headstock / tailstock alignment check out? I seem to remember having to scrape the v-way of the headstock on mine a little because it was out of line with the bed by a couple of thousandths.

Considering I had taken apart the tailstock to clean it, when I reassembled it I put a dead center in the headstock and tailstock to see how close they were aligned, I couldn't believe how close they where so I left well enough alone.

It sure is nice to be making chips again.

Ed