lathe bed design

have not read the entire thing but it looks interesting

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russellseaton1

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Depends on what you're doing with your lathe... For turning between centers, two nails is good enough. Your precision comes from turning the piece round.

For an operation like drilling, the bed design makes a difference. If your bed is flexing and moving, you won't get an accurate hole at all. It could actually move enough to break a bit.

I haven't looked at the article, but I suspect much of it refers to machinist lathes. There, the bed design is absolutely critical. The cross slide rides on it and the tailstock rides on it, and being out by

1/32" over 3" is huge!

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a sign of the times as that was written long ago and it was worthwhile to impart the knowledge into the entire trade

he makes a brief mention of the wood beds with a quick history

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