That looks like a center post for a saddle on a lathe.
The Tool post fits over it as other options.

Martin

On 5/6/2015 6:59 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 6 May 2015 09:55:22 -0400, "Phil Kangas"
wrote:


"Larry Jaques"
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On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:18:01 +0000, Ozzie

wrote:

Can anyone help me identify this machine? Many
missing parts but should be
enough for someone in the know to identify. If
anyone has a picture of a
complete example it would be much appreciated.

Thank You

http://www.polytechforum.com/img/4e
http://www.polytechforum.com/img/4f
http://www.polytechforum.com/img/4g

You'll have to fix your links first.

I trimmed the IMGs in brackets to make them work.

I snipped the URL from them and they still didn't work yesterday, so
maybe Poly did something, too. I can see your links.

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