Hi Oz, The adapter idea is interesting , I had the chance of a L00 spindle once which I think would swap but I had already got most of the threaded nose stuff by then and knowing Harrison and all the minor changes they seem to have made I was not sure if it would have fitted anyway, at least without getting too involved.
I had already sort of made observations on what needed doing and most of it is in the parts yet to be put back on , i.e , the Norton gearbox, the Apron, tailstock and top slide. just waer and tear stuff so I will do what I can when I have things in bits but expect some things will end up coming apart in some area agian to solve all the problems.
I have started on the other 'bits' of the lathe and decided to do the oily dirty parts first, everything has had a general clean and most of the old paint scraped off ages ago but not clean enough for paint. The main lumps are , The Norton Gearbox, The Apron/saddle/Topslide and the tailstock. As you can see they are all rough looking compared to the lathe now ! . I intend to strip and inspect all these bits and repair/replace anything that is found to be not right, then anything missed will have to be discovered once the lathe is up and running and then go from there, hopefully most things should get fixed before its up and running this way.



This is what the Norton box looked like after it was 'cleaned' , I have found the two front bronze bushes are worn where the lead screw and feed screw go into the box, I have just de burred all the cogs and generally cleaned up everything, oilways had grease in them as usual. The screw cutting charts will need a cunning plan or they are going to let the job down, there was some new ones on Ebay but the wrong charts.

I have also got the belt covers back on so its looking more like a lathe and less parts lying about too.

These photos are to show the tool box that was say three feet from the back of the lathe only had grey dust not paint overspray land on it, first shot finger ready to wipe off , second shot same bit wiped clean with finger and paint still red and shiny under the dust, this is a main bonus of this paint.


Cheers Mick