Heh. No, I've got that toolpost on my
lathe in the basement shop. It's not really
backwards, they just run a not nicer if you
turn it 180 degrees so the handle locks down
away from the spindle, rather than towards it.

Basically you slack the clamp nut, slide the
whole post out of the T-slot, flip it around,
and re-install it.

Interestingly I had given up on that toolpost
until reading this exact thread. Because I
was sure it only indexed in 90 degree intervals,
I thought it was really a production toolpost.

But then why would a prototype machinist be
using it??? Could not figure that out. So
I re-installed it, and found out that while it
does automatically index in 90 degree intervals,
you *can* set it at *any* angle, which is what
I really like doing. So I took off the aloris
clone and put the hardinge one back on, loaded
with my four favorite tools.

Jim