Tailstock alignment.

[olderdan]

Hi Tony
Thanks for your excellent postings I shall be following them with great interest, lovely bike buy the way, I cant recall the Italians ever making a bad one. Re tailstock alignment every production lathe I have used has had a dropped tailstock due to wear of the base casting having a smaller footprint than the saddle, and probably sliding along the bed a lot more in use. One of my earlier posts was reboring the tailstock in sit u and making a new barrel, been great ever since.
Given your obvious expertise in machining morse tapers etc I am sure you could do this if you wished.
Regards
Olderdan