Ned Simmons wrote:



If you look at the pic of the headstock guts you can see how the
spindle tail steps down to about 2-1/4" OD outside the headstock.
Between the step and the nose there's nothing to prevent the hole
being much larger. Maybe Monarch figured you should buy one of their
big lathes if you wanted a big hole thru. Excepting the 10EE, I think
this was the smallest lathe Monarch was building at the time.

Yup. most of the Monarchs I have seen were pretty big!
Lovely machines, too - they just LOOK good.

Jon