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I recently picked up a 1942 Wards - Logan lathe and after cleaning the caked grease off, building a stand for it and getting it located and levelling it in with a precision machine level, I am beginning to play with it. I did a test run and after some adjustment to the tail stock it is parallel end to end within about 1/2 thou. My question is around the feed gears: when engaged they are loud in one direction but not so bad in the other. Sounds like they are going to rattle off. Is this normal or not and if not is there a fix? Also, has anyone found a way to plug or seal the oil hole in the head stock pulley so it doesn't leak oil out onto the surface and the belt?