Sounds like fun.
Hey, new users have to start SOMEWHERE. What I saw beats a Craftsman 109 lathe, which is where I began.
Joe in NH
I surely KNEW the difference long before 1968.. but.. had to operate out of "efficiency" apartments, stairs not lifts, the only way to keep chips from carburettor re-work out of the carpet, bedclothes, GF's navel and geography of related persuasions being to do the machining in a bathroom shower stall or over the bath tub for fast, easy, and thorough clean-up
So a 90 pound weakling LSO was negotiated off Sears Landmark Store Manager on the basis of my $99 dollars vs the $600-plus list price
(it had never made a chip! The flash rust all over the bed was probably from well-meaning "store display" cleaners and industrial versions of Windex -hardly a good substitute for way oil!).
That was meant to clear the terrible eyesore it had become out of his store in favour of displaying something else he could actually SELL a few of. Saber-saws were all the rage, that era, for example.
That collitch Marketing course had came in handy after all. Or so I thought, 'coz about the third visit, once he realized I was NOT going to go over $100 bucks, the M6, 6" X 18" became MY curse, rather than his ... for $99.
Another $110 or so, brand-new parts still in the channels, and I had face/driver plate, centers, Jacobs on #1 & #2 , a 4-J Chuck-Shaped-Object, lantern post with LH, straight, RH holders, and even the two busitid plated Zamak handles sorted, cross and compound.
If I had to guess, that Sears Store Manager had more than just the one Marketing Course to have beaten me into taking it AND paying anything
at all for it. Brand new. Sort-of.
Now..
why was it a curse - given it started with ZERO wear?
Well.. Weber, Carter, SU, DelOrto, Solex, Zenith carb jets, metering rods & c. are finicky items when the goal is improvement, not just maintenance.
TWICE that mild cheese rectangular bed was lapped with the aid of a precision reference.
Each go was good for about 40 hours of actual use, then accuracy started to suffer. It wasn't JUST the bed. The carriage, cross, compound, TS were also built out of a first-cousin to cheese.
It ATE MY SCARCE
TIME! And I could NOT buy that time
back.
Frack that for a game of sojers!
Moved over to Fuel Injection where burning a new PROM got better results, anyway!
