Quote Originally Posted by metric_taper View Post
Frank, from looking at the photo, it appears (at least to me) that the head stock and tail stock have a spacer added to raise them up. It may be some optical trickery I'm seeing. If this is the case, I wonder if this was a factory modification.
Yes there is a riser under the head stock and the tail stock This would actually give it 48" swing between the chuck and the carriage but 36 over the carriage.