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254: Scraped dovetails? or just decoration?
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252: Comes complete with free metal shavings
251: Possible design for checking perpendicularity.
250: notice the white paint on the gears..
249: Ground it out so it has a chance to work.
248: This hole was for sliding a tube in to fill the drip gallery with oil - not a straight shot.
247: Gears full of grit - packed with wax - paint on gears - long clean up.
246: Clean up finished on this end. The copper is for draining oil next time.
245: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 You can see shinny metal flakes at the bottom - already flushe some.

256: More to clean.
257: Packed with grease mixed with metal bits..
258: I think I will add a jack screw to the block on the right.
259: Every thing is full of grit.
260: Picking up the lathe. The motor lift helps with balencing.
261: Getting closer. Put loctite 'make-a-gasket' on top of the stands and under the lathe.
262: Not cleaned up.. will have to mill it.
263: Used my Russian straight edge.
264: Cleaning up the top of the tailstock. Indicated true with the plunger.
265: Cleaned up the rough edge (3 pictures back).