Thank you, but far from making it a museum piece … this puppy will get used a lot!!Looks like you're building yourself kind of a museum piece. Looks very nice!
Logan made 2 production cross slides 1 had a lever and the other used the cross slide screw. Both had a hard stop you could use if wanted.Thank you.
I will post it on the Logan Yahoo group to see if I get confirmation... will report back.
It does have a nut... I will take better photos and measure it to add to the description...
You can insert brass tips if you want. Also use roller bearings if you want . Some people don’t like the roller bearings because chips can get under them and mark parts. But you can build a chip shield out of cardboard to stop that.Using this duplicate post to add some progress…
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But I thought those fingers needed to be brass so the would not damage/mark the workpiece… These are steel…
I will look for the gib in the other stuff the previous owner gave me… but I think that the gib is missing…The rectangular part in your pics is a production cross slide. It makes it easy to put a tool on the front and backside of the lathe. It is easy to change from the standard cross slide to the production slide. Many people say production slides are less apt to chatter then the standard compound slide. I started machining in 1953 with a new Logan that was set up with the production slide. And I still prefer it to the standard slide. I didn’t see the gib for the production slide in the pic.