I have not worked on my Select for a long time Glen.? You may end up with it one dayJ? As to the lathe it’s a Hodge podge of copied parts.? As you said the saddle cross slide and compound slide are pure South Bend. ?In fact a South Bend cross slide fits the Select saddle just fine. ?The apron is a morfidite. ?Was originally a C style apron that? they made a feeble attempt at making a power cross slide out of it.? Failed miserably. The quick change gear box is pure Boxford as is the tail stock.? Head stock is very much like later model Hercus out of Australia.? The back gears are metric but almost identical to South Bend.? In fact if you recall my back gears were all laying down in the bottom of the head stock.? Least all the teeth wereL? I altered the back gear shaft by turning down from metric to inch and now a SB back gear fits perfectly.? I also made a new bull gear for it but its South bend on the outside Select on the inside.? Well it fits the Select spindle.? I made a bronze gear that is bolted to the original cone V belt pulley on the spindle and its South Bend.??? Not sure why I went to all this trouble and should have done like I did the Jet lathe? at the Florence shop and just made it a serpentine belt two step drive and run it with a inverter.? The end gears are in fact 18 pitch South bend as is the gear on the end of the spindle.? My lathe was missing the shifter so I installed a South Bend and it fit perfectly.? So to say the lathe is a morfidite would be true.? It’s a combination of four or five different lathes as well as some metric and some inch especially in the gears. ?I think mine is an early version as the later ones are a bit different. Not sure I have seen any pictures of yours Glen so not sure if it’s like mine or not.?? I am still toying with the idea of altering were the threading lead screw is mounted and use a SB saddle and power feed apron.? I have both in really nice shape. Oh and the SB saddle fits the Select bed.? Just like the Boxford Saddle cross slide and compound I installed on a SB lathe that is now in Michigan. Sure wish our email services would talk to each other.? Sorry guys I know this is off list but it’s the only way I can email Glen as well as Bart.? Not sure why I can talk to the Dalton group but not one single person can I email.? Oh I get lots of spam that’s for sure it all comes through.? Dennis

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"I think if I were to make one of these compounds I would for sure put an upside angle on the spud and a matching angle on the top casting clamp so it would draw the compound down tight to the cross slide.? Think you would agree Glen.?? Dennis"

?Funny, I have just the last few days scraping that little Select lathe Dennis, the slideways at the bottom of the carriage, the cross slide and the compound slide. There is not a single slideway surface on that lathe that ever was scraped or even surface ground!
?Anyway, the compound to cross slide connection is pure South Bend, as are many other parts, and using the inverted taper journal with two pins with angled ends pressed against that taper via setscrews.
?I've found this method to be weak, easily forced to turn, for the record. I finally got the scews secured tight enough to enable me to break free the nut holding the Quick change tool holder to the T slot, that was using a 10" long box wrench, so maybe normal turning uses far less torque.
?Of the Select lathe I do have to say, the slideways that were milled were of excellent precision, and I have to wonder if Lin Huan, well known for their tens of thousands of turret lathes, scraped any of?those slide way surfaces.
Glen