In article , GMasterman says...

Thanks for the ideas. The nuts need to be smaller in dia than standard nuts.
The originals were longer in length and were round for half of the nut length.
My problem is now that the lathe is out of service while I source a crossfeed
screw bushing. Without it, there is no way to use the lathe to make repair
parts. Guess I need two lathes?

I guess the nuts were really locknuts for the individual gib
screws.

Just go ahead and use the machine without locknuts on those
screws, once you have the crossfeed bushing sorted out. Most
smaller, cheaper lathes like the 9" SB don't even have
locknuts installed from the factory, you just snug down
the screws and leave them at that. So fix up the locknuts
that way and then install them.

Jim

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