Or Maybe It Won’t!

I said that now the serious spending could begin. And it kind of has, since I bought supplies for the countershaft, some measuring tools, a toolbox to put them in, a drill chuck, a tailstock spindle and a replacement carriage gib stock that I cleft in twain. HOWEVER.

I HAVE ALSO CREATED LIFE mwahahahahahaha!!!

In that last post, I was building the countershaft to get lower speeds. It turns out that this lathe has “back gears” which basically means “a whole nother set of speeds, lower than the regular ones so you don’t need to have a countershaft”. ¹ I didn’t realize it had back gears because a) I didn’t have a manual (another thing I bought since the last post) and b) the back gears selection knob thingie was missing. But I built another forged from the molten core of the Earth itself. Observe!