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vtsteam:
Screws, Oz, countersunk to just have the slot come a hair above flush. These were wide head types. I don't know if I'll go back to scraping just now -- I feel like attacking the carriage pattern next...... :beer:

vtsteam:
Wrong...............

started scraping again.

RobWilson:
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Looking canny Steve :thumbup:

Any way I reckon your bed is way over engineered ,,,,,,,,,,,,, I mean using all that steel in all :loco:

Now this is a lathe bed :)

Notice the steel/cast iron ways set into the timber :med:

Just love the shape of those castings .

Rob

vtsteam:
I was just going to say, Rob, they really had a sense of beauty in everything they did. I imagine that when those timbers were new, the lathe was quite a sight. Just the clean lines of the pulley (not to mention the major castings) alone draws my eye.

Just up the Interstate from me in windsor Vermont at the Precision Museum they have a granite bed lathe. It's not as cleaned up as the one above, and not a clear photo, but you can see in the handwheel casting the same love of detail -- not to mention thin section casting ability!

There was also a cast concrete lathe in Model Egineer, made after the war, I don't remember which issue, but I thought it was really cool.

vtsteam:
I don't know if it's of interest to anybody, but here's what it looks like a little after beginning scraping. The blue is the high areas that need to be scraped. The left end is a little low also -- you can see the ends are un-colored. The total amount to be scraped until finish is probably only a few thousandths, but it's a long process getting there. There's a lot of blue in this pass because I had just rolled the blue on the plate to start with.

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