Mover your saddle into the red zone in this picture, lightly apply the saddle lock and then move the saddle to the right. If it gets tighter or even stops then you have some wear In the ways.
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You can also put a straight edge to the side of the ways (in the red zone) with a flash light behind to see how much wear is in the way like so
Doing this would get you the best most fair price and the most interest in your machine, most who would be interested are gonna want to know the wear before making a trip to get it
It is an $800 SouthBend lathe.
Not a $20,000 MoriSeiki lathe.
If you want to come look at it,
bring your ruler and your flash
light. By all means. It comes
with the not often seen toolpost
grinder attachment. Does that
mean it was used with haste and
the ways are worn to shlt ?
Of coarse freaking not. If I for
one minute believed that including
the grinder attachment was going
to detract from the desirability
of this lathe, I would have tossed
it in the trash. But I thought
someone would like to have it.
If you feel that you need a pic
of the ways and don't want the
lathe because it comes with a
grinder attachment, don't buy it
dude. But making assertions that
are just a cloud in the sky is
a tactic that people who argue
politics like to use. Take one
small point, that may or may not
apply in a small way to the subject
at hand, then hyper focus on that
point and use it to discredit the
whole topic, and use it to destroy
the other persons point or topic.
I do appreciate your well intention
of making recommendations to potentially
help sell the machine. But I really don't
care to go to that much trouble. How
many pictures do you see on ebay or
FB marketplace with close up way pics?
This is not a full service auction site.
It is free to look, free to pass it by.
Again, if it was a $20,000 lathe, then
ya, sure. But I think you are a little
too down in the weeds on your expectations
here. It comes from a consumer driven
society, where they spread such horse
shlt like the customer is always right.
I kept me receipt, so you owe me a new one.
Nnnnnnno. Not reality. Come look at my
lathe. If you don't like it, no hard
feelings. I will even give you one of
my beers in the shop for stopping by.
We can even shoot the shlt and talk
shop a bit. I'm a pretty nice guy.
But if you want a nice condition and
original lathe, with the factory
overhead shaft, and the factory TP
grinder, it is a good specimen.
It is light years better than the
10" Atlaas with babbit bearings that
I started off with. I am sure it
will make the right person an
awesome lathe. Peace.
--Doozer