Repairing Atlas 10" lathe

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If you look at how the lathe is built up, you should find that most of what you are worried about is mounted onto the detachable head not the main bed girder.

The girder will have to have a few holes recut in the correct places, namely the head hold down bolt holes, the reverse mechanism holding screws and one end for mounting the foot. There might be a couple of others to drill and tap, but nothing of any consequence.
The leadscrew would need shortening at the tailstock end, but that can be left until the very end, but that would need a lathe to recut the threads on the end, as your lathe won't be able to do it because you are working on the required threading leadscrew. Catch 22. I was lucky in that my old leadscrew was in position while I cut the new one down to size, so I used the Atlas to do the job.

For someone who knows what he is doing, maybe 3 to 4 hours taking it steady, and that is for the whole job.

Yet again, you are a little far away for me to assist with my machinery.

If you do raise a new post, I can show you a couple of easy mods to do that make the lathe even more accurate and easier to use, as I still have a few pics of some of the mods I did.

You must also realise that I am quoting from memory here, so I just might have forgotten a few things.

John