headstock alignment

I have a 1947 South Bend 9C horizontal bench lathe with 48" bed that I am having an issue with regarding the headstock alignment. I am the second owner of the lathe and purchased it from a golf course where it was used to clean up shafts for the mowers so not used a lot. Most of the bed flaking...

The lathe is new to me, it is an older Clausing Colchester 13x36. It shows signs of moderate ware, it does not show signs of outright abuse. I am trying to assess its condition and how far out of spec it is. I have been struggleing with measuring horizontal spindle alignment vis e vi the ways, I...

I determined that the headstock on my PM-1236 is badly out of alignment so I have been attempting to perform the alignment per the manual. I obtained a 1.5 inch precision ground 12 inch bar that was mounted in the 4 jaw chuck and centered. Moving the dial indicator from the chuck to the end of...