Sledgehammer head toolpost!

[JRouche]

WoW!! I had no idea i was in the snob forum, my computer has been hacked!!!!

I didnt read all the smears, five was enough.

Get over it hacks. Get back to the stuff you made, hacked, glued or otherwise cobbled together and work with that instead of yer dainty fingers on the keyboard

Kidding!! Sometimes folks just have to do what comes natural to them. Machine work might not be the ticket. I dont mind a hack fix on anything. If I can get things working again I will go primitive.

Do with what you have or can make is my story. JR

[johansen]

Is that a glob of weld holding the chuck to the spindle?

sure looks like it.

[kendall]

It's an art piece, precision welds artistically applied for just the right effect to signify to signify man's rage against the machine.

[MichaelP]

This is the very desirable toolroom version of the lathe. The serpentine belt alone costs a fortune.