Well I started on the apron....I was up to this point fairly convinced that there wasn't much wear on this lathe. The apron said otherwise.


NEEDS new nuts, there is .04" radial wear in the feed worm gear shaft, and .06 axial wear!
The worm gear bearing shaft measured round and straight, but the bore for the gear was way oblong and worn heavily....the wicks got old and this part just didn't get oil.
OK....after I cussed for a while...I came up with a way to fix it.
I cleaned up the apron, and measured the distance from the bottom of the saddle to the center of the leadscrew



I then set up the leadscrew in the lathe and set the mating surface of the Saddle to the same height using adjustable parallels.

I made a cast iron bushing to .06 under the OD of the worm gear and approximately .06 bigger in diameter than the nominal bore of the housing.
I then bored the housing to size, loctited the bushing in and then bored to size.
As you can see, I made the axial groove deep enough that so that once bored to size, the groove is exposed, like the original, for a piece of wick.


A couple of other bushings were replaced and all seemed well at this point....now the mistake!
What I should have done was measure the wear in the SADDLE before I did this. What I found was the saddle is worn at the fron .010 and will need to be re-scraped to get the saddle level across the bed. Additionally, I need to grind the .003" wear out of the bed....though this is very minor on a lathe this old, I'm not going to rescrape the saddle to a worn bed.. so the distance from the saddle to the leadscrew hanger is going to change. I'll either need to take it off the saddle or shim the leadscrew hangers to lower the leadscrew......right now I'm waiting for funds to grind the bed....I'm getting closer.
Here's what she looks like thus far....I'll post some pictures of the tooling I've gathered for her thus far.


I've also rescraped the compound and base of the compound parallel to each other and to a good bearing with the cross slide


And I picked up some adjustable leveling feet also.

Dave