My old Spanish lathe did not have hardened ways hence the wear problem. There are times when I wish that I still had that machine for heavy work despite the wear. Did you notice the interesting feature of the ways? The tailstock had the normal - one flat/one pyramid - arrangement but the saddle had two pyramids.
I kept a lot of things when I scrapped that lathe and many have been put to good use. Several featured in my past posts.
The motor and gearbox were kept, of course. The motor was used to power my shock dyno; Shock dyno (or Shock absorber dynamometer)
The face plate and chuck back plate are used in this chuck mounting post.
Mounted on a square steel plate the chuck is used on the mill as a vice for round things.
I kept the cross slide and compound rest which was used in my brake drum grinder; Grinding machine for drum brakes.
The cylinder from the tailstock was the basis of my cylindrical square; Cylindrical square from a lathe tailstock.
The lead screw was used to make the boring bar for a line boring setup that I used to make front forks.
Reusing madness.
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