As long as the big hole of cement is not used for dead bodies everything else is repairable… including feelings.
Sorry I could not help out, thank you to everyone who did.
Getting the lathe working
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Awesome work! Thanks guys!!!
Yeah, enormous thank you to @lewisss, @stefanoromano and @boldaslove. Also for keeping the space/floor as clean as possible throughout.
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Feel yourselves slabbed on the back!
That looks very neat indeed, a credit to the space and a great slab forward!
Looking good!!!
Will try and do a bit more tidying today…
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Incidentally, I stumbled on this youtube channel the other day where they strip down, rebuild and recondition a lathe just like ours. Good fun 
I watched that last week!
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I quite like how they’ve got completely sidetracked into building a super sturdy and accurate X-Y grinding table to level the ways 
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Getting a lathe working step 1: get another lathe to make the parts that are broken 
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So if you need accurate machine tools in order to build accurate machine tools, does that mean that all machine tools are descended from a single common ancestor?
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Yes, probably made by witworth
That’s a good read!
I personally find it amazing and strange to find a link to a small publication, from over 15 years ago, from my home town on the other side of the planet in our cozy little space forum here.
Small world.