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Sometimes most anything will make things better. Many years ago a
friend and i purchased a worn out small Sears lathe. I used a file
and got it a lot better than it was originally. Not the a good way ,
but it still was a lot better after I was done.
Dan

I remachined a well-worn Sears 109 on a big horizontal mill in the
high school shop night class. It did a nice smooth job with four
passes of a new angle cutter, without having to unclamp it and lose
parallelism. Lowering the ways lowered the saddle, and drops the half
nuts out of line with the leadscrew. I thought I could shim the saddle
back up with 0.025" sheet brass strips but they weren't flat enough
after bending the ends up to keep them in place. Now I use it as a
speed lathe for polishing and drilling small deep oil holes.
jsw