I had a second orginal style crossslide, that I butchered up to mount a homebrew milling attachment. It takes a 3/8" bolt, so should be fairly stable. THEN I realized, that if I now take just an additional small amount off the bottom, I can use this toolpost on the ORIGINAL compound on the new slide. However, I also bought a nice little tool postĪnd turned the "T" off the bottom, so I could block it up and use it on this new slide. It actually is TOO short for the original lantern, and I now have to shim it up. I bought a 10" compound off eFray, which is of course shorter. Actually, I'm on the road to solving the compound problem with that big crossslide. I will watch for feed back on your Atlas lathe. Then, there was this HORRIBLE roar and I chanced a glance in the rearview and VERY briefly saw Don Garlits, slicks still smoking, headers blowing fire, scream past me at over 240 mph. I launched in second, instead of my usual third, and within maybe a hundred feet of the lights I was sure I had beaten him. They could not dial in enough time on the lights, so they spotted and flagged me. So, I suddenly had a little over 900 horses in, basically, a street machine. he was too old to race! (Probably about our age now.) He couldn't shift worth a darn. He felt that there was something wrong with it because he was loosing races. I drove it for a year and traded the engine plus $10k to a dragracer friend of mine that had a Sox and Martin motor. Now, that was killer machine right off the showroom floor. Your dedication to the mighty Mopar lineup is enviable! When I was a kid, I used to stick 392s in '57 Chevys. It looks like you have done a lot of things. Trying to get by, and learn a little about my lathe. The last several years I worked for a (now defunct) Motorola dealer, installing radio/ telco paging/ comm/ gear on mountaintops, towers, and in E911 dispatch centers. I spent 15 yrs selling auto/truck parts, hardware, and logging supplies, then about 12 servicing HVAC and refrigeration. In a former life, I spent 6 yrs in the US Navy, as an electronics tech, maintaining GCA (Ground Controlled Approach, or "PAR" Precision Approach Radar.) This was at NAS Miramar, and also where I spent many hours behind the wheel of my 69 383 Plymouth Roadrunner, later the mighty 440 six pack '70 Roadrunner, as well as a 426 powered '64 Dodge. I'm aging before my time, at 59 I already have some rather irritating osteo problems. I've recently gotten a little Atlas 12" lathe, added a gearbox, and found one of these evidently rare "production cross slides" which was actually for a 10" lathe: I'd started this thread "over there" and someone suggested I search around at this forum.
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