Humble request for advise (or sympathy):
Just unboxed my new Jet 1014 and while checking it over,
noted that the alignment of the tips of the headstock and
tailstock centers is not perfect. The tailstock center is perhaps
..010 or .012 inch lower than the headstock center. This
is when the tailstock is moved right up close to the spindle.
I've read somewhere, probably on this newsgroup,
that when a tailstock center is tightened onto or into a
piece of wood, that the tailstock center has some tendency
to raise up. Depending of course on the bed's rigidity and
the tailstock stiffness as well.
My question, then, from anyone who might have encountered
about this type and amount of misalignment in a wood lathe,
should I worry?
Jiggling things around does not seem to alter this alignment
at all, and correcting this error would probably involve milling
a few thousandths off the headstock base. Something I'm not
very good at with my file and emery cloth!

Old Chief Lynn