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Two unmachined flats - machining them for the DRO mount.
288: Just touching the flat - it was machined - but they painted over it? Where the follower rest mounts.
287: Just touching the flat - it was machined - but they painted over it? Where the follower rest mounts. The red sticking out from underneath is some shim stock.
286: lining up saddle
285: Under paint - taper did not clean up.
284: Replacement faceplate has paint on the taper.
283: Inking shows really poor contact.
282: Grit on oilers
281: Bottom of lathe sadle - came full of grit.
280: disassembling to clean
279: does not match ways.
290: MT2 - ER32 collet in my drill press - the tang is to short to extract the normal way - have to use wedges. -- The bearings in this old thing are not terrible - about 5 mills of runout at one foot off of a test bar. -- The drill quality is better and no more burrs on drill-bits.
291: Renzetti Snug
292: Drilled and tapped to mount DRO
293: Wall tear out - and reroute vent pipe.
294: milling counter bore - spacer plate
295: spacer plate profiled
296: spacer plate deburred.
297: Brand new ER32 collet - comes complete with burrs.
298: 2022-12-01_13-18-13.jpg
299: Had to disassemble the head and even the connector to fix the problem with the strain relief.
