Maybe my screw feed compound gear sets are from a slightly different lathe? I'm assuming that the gear that drives the compound gear sets rotates at the same rate as the headstock. For instance, a 60-tooth gear is specified for a number of ratios, but I only have 56-tooth gears. I don't seem to have a lot of the gears required. There's a chart inside the headstock gear cover showing various gear combinations to achieve different screw and feed rates and.this is odd. The other evening I hooked it up to power, and cleaned and oiled it. I've done some introductory reading as it came with the original Owner's Manual, and I've ordered a copy of the Southbend "How to Run a Lathe" book. Tool holders, bits of various sizes, chucks, backing plates, steady-rests, drill chucks, centers, and a whole lot of other things I've yet to identify. It belonged to my wife's grandfather, and came with a HUGE variety of "parts". I'm pretty excited to learn how to use it looking back on the past dozen things I've had done by machine shops probably 10 of them could be done on this lathe if I had the skill. As the title to my post says, I am now the proud owner of a Craftsman/Atlas metal lathe.
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