Gareth I am heading down to my Oregon coast place today.? Will be off line till this evening.?? As to the gib all I need is the dimensions and I can make one if you don’t have a mill or know someone out there that does and can make one.? Really easy for me as I happen to have a custom made carbide cutter we had made years ago when we were doing aerospace work for Boeing aircraft in the late 1990’s? It has the correct angle so I can cut the angle on the edge of the gib without having to tip the head on my mill.? Made lots of Dalton and SB gibs.? They were made from mild steel usually.?

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I wish Mitch would jump into this post so we can get dimensions off his compound. ?One nice thing Gareth is the radial angle graduations are on the cross slide as they are usually on the compound base casting.? Making the bottom casting will be easy the top casting a bit harder.? If your more interested in function than originality we might be able to use the top half of a SB compound .? I have lead screws nuts and handles so that’s not a problem.?

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Gareth do you have any of the change gears for the lathe or what gears do you have.? Also what is the width of the change gears and also the hole diameter in the gear.? You may not understand gear pitch so let me know what you have and I think I can figure out what pitch they are.? I am almost sure knowing how Dalton used ever part they could the change gears are going to be the same gears used on the Lot 6 and Dalton 9 inch lathe.? There would be no reason to change as your lathe is not that much bigger.? Also what spindle nose does your lathe have.? The Lot 6 and Dalton 9 have a 1 7/8 – 8? spindle nose with a number 4 Morris Taper.? If so the lathe could use 4C collets or the ? inch collet. ?

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I know just a bunch of more questions but I have always been fascinated with this lathe as it’s so rare and we know so little about it.? I? have quite a collection of Dalton sales literature and there is no mention of a 10 ? inch lathe in any of the stuff I? have.? Some of it shows the full line of lathes that Dalton sold during the 20’s and again no mention of your lathe.? The one thing that does puzzle me is the end door and the compound slide.? For one the end door did not exist till after 1921 and the compound slide design was only used in 1913 on the Lot 2.? Just a frigging puzzle to me.? Then on the other hand all this old 80 year old has to do is worry about some darn old lathe that should not exist”-)))))? Dennis

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I have been trying to figure out how it got here myself, I believe a local blacksmith owned it but how it got there im not sure. We are definitely out of the way here, I didn’t realize we are basically straight across from Oregon, but yes Fishing and farming are our two big things here