Clarke CL300 with dodgy Tailstock

[booski]

EDIT:
Rob, I don't suppose you've got a picture of the bottom of the base and ways? Just to entertain my own curiosity to know what it SHOULD have looked like on mine as mine was practically flat but in your picture it looks like it's raised.


Yeah, the bed is ground reasonably well I suppose.
I haven't got any engineers blue, but I have used a white board marker, but it's much thinner and doesn't transfer as well.

In the end I used some epoxy putty on the bottom of the base and pressed it down onto the ways with a piece of double sided tape backing between the bed ways and epoxy to stop it from sticking to the ways. Tightened the retaining nut down gradually sweeping the DTI from side to side until it was a little over level leaving myself a little to take off if necessary.

Unfortunately, I broke the putty off by mistake! It had adhered fairly well, until I put it in my vice to do the top, DOH!

Rob, it's much appreciated. Looks like it's off a CL300M too? When you say the quill is buggered what do you mean?

If it's not too bad I might be interested if it means I can just transfer the parts over. Let me know what you'd like for it. I have been tempted with a camlock stock from Arc, but £80 is a little out of my range at the minute.

I've redoubled my efforts and replaced the epoxy putty that broke off with a brass strip stuck to the bottom with araldite. Just waiting for the araldite to harden and I'll see how it goes.