Lathe Motor Mount Improvements

[PJs]

Thanks Paul! Your finish is superb especially with a fixed cross feed rate on something this big! I have no auto cross feed on my peanut so something this large takes a deft hand on mine with the changing SFM, runout and buzz.

I have started quite a while ago now, hand scraping and lapping a new 14" bed/extended cross slide and my compound with some new, "Non Beer Can" Gibs, for mine. Didn't have the metrics I needed to measure properly nor a rock big enough...however my new 18 x 24 x 3 rock arrives today. Now I can move forward again. When I breakdown the old one I will also be changing the spindle bearings over to some Timken Tapers I found that are the exact match instead of the SKF that require mods to the gears/bushings. Also have some new ideas thanks to you for the motor mounting. Taking my time on a cheap-n-cheerful budget. Hopefully when I get this done it will be an order of magnitude better for what I want to do... and will probably be a $10k, $500 lathe. ~¿@ Always love old Iron and wish for space to put it! Thanks for Sharing!

~PJ