On 2008-07-15, catguy wrote:

"Ignoramus22312" wrote in message
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Now that I have my lathe "working", I started looking at its condition
a little more closely. On my lathe, the cross slide is moved by a
3/4-5 ACME screw, that moves a brass nut attached to the cross slide.

There is a lot of wear in this, as in, maybe 1/16 to 1/8" of slop.

snip stuff

Is this what you are refering to?....Paul

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=140238453069


Looks like a great find, but this is for a different Clausing.

i
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