axolotl wrote:
On 12/17/2009 10:12 AM, RoyJ wrote:
The page you mentioned:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/southbend9-inch/
has a babbit head with loose change gears and no power feed as the
first picture.

Roy,

The "Workshop" series of lathes have hard steel spindles in cast iron
(the headstock itself) bearings. They last for decades.

You mean there isn't a "real" bearing so much as it is just steel running on
cast iron? I'm pretty ignorant about metallurgy, and I apologize if I'm not
educated enough to notice sarcasm, but am I correct in thinking that is a
bad thing?

Jon