steamer wrote:

--This reminds me: if you're trying to keep, say, cast iron dust off of
the ways DO NOT put a shop rag on the ways as it might snag and begin a Very
Bad Day for you. Instead use aluminum foil; if it gets snagged by a
protruding chuck jaw it'll just tear a strip off, no harm done..

Overlaping pieces of aluminum foil act as sliding way covers. Really nice
if you are using a tool post grinder.

Wes