Chuck Sherwood wrote:
Those South Bends, Logans and Clausings are looking better now aren't
they. You can still buy these parts both new and used for the American
iron and the Chineese iron is unobtainium. As a general rule, it seems,


Thats not entirely true. More and more parts for clausing machines are
becoming unavailable. There are no parts for my rockwell machines.

Well, to be fair... This is an Enco brand, made in 1986. Enco is still
in business. If it were an American-made machine, and the company was
still around, there would be parts available, at some price.
For example, Clausing still offers most parts for the Atlas lathes,
last made around 1970. They did not have this same gear for a lathe made
in the early 1950s, but it was listed as recently as 4 years ago.
That's a 50 year old lathe, not 20 like the Enco. 20 years is well
within the normal service life of any lathe.
Shame on Enco for not making an effort to support their older sales.

Rex B