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Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 12:10 pm What’s a CRN?

Canadian Registration Number.
From the internet.
RussN

What vintage Hendley lathe?
A web search reveals manuals possibly available, but the machine's vintage needs to be known
RussN

I suggest painting the boring bar with Dykem blue (or equivalent), try boring with it, and look for any signs of rubbing anywhere on the bar. The photo you provided seems to have some surface discontinuities, but I can't make out useful details. I've done this same process before to corrector "...

Puuurrrrfect!
Even without cat-enary wires.
RussN

If the shafts can slide into those aluminum holders, the act of tightening those set screws likely will push the shafts off center. Perhaps boring the holes smaller and lightly heat shrinking the shafts into those holders (temporarily) would get the concentricity closer. Then again, chucking the sha...

Good progress.
And a lesson why I always mount unfinished pistons on their rods and THEN turn them to final dimensions relative to their rods.
Glad you got there.
RussN

What Steggy said.
RussN

I took way longer than minutes to graduate.
RussN

Watts = Volts x Amps so Amps = Watts / Volts Batteries have a desired charging amperage. Check their specifications. Lead Acid batteries require a specific charging Voltage to keep the Amperage within acceptable limits, and not overcharge the battery. Smart chargers taper off the charge after reachi...

That steam locomotive #7 appears to be part way through the required BIG boiler survey, judging by the X-Y patterns marking locations on the boiler to make ultrasonic thickness measurements. I wonder what condition that loco is actually in?
Quite an amazing survival.
RussN

"...cross slide dial left of the carriage feed..."

I am having difficulty visualizing what this configuration is. That sounds like the normal setup I am familiar with.
Clarification please?
Thanks,
RussN

Copy the links and paste them on another window. Then the pics show up.

But I can't offer help because I don't understand specifically the problem described.
"the nut centered" how? Between the bolts?
RussN