The picture shows the headstock after attacking it with household kitchen-degreaser and a bit of scrubbing. (Which sort of started this cleaning marathon)
One of the moments of shocking sloppyness: This is one of the cross-slide's gibs, which has never been fully bolted down, because the same bolt also held the oiler-cap on and because at the factory they didn't bother drilling the hole the correct size, tightening down the bolt resulted in locking the oiler-cap...
Same gib, de-rusted, oiled and ready for install.
It's somewhat hard to see in the pictures, but now you can make out that the lathe is actually green.
Last task on the list was to clean up and repair the power-cross and longitudinal feed lever, which had been broken off, ever since I bought the lathe.
Yes, that's JB-weld. But the pin had been pressed in from the back and there was no reasonable way to get it out. Also the lever had broken off exactly at the hole resulting in the pin being a nice alignment dowel.
Greasing all the bores and shafts with molybdenum-disulfide grease to make them run nicely again.
Spot the dirty print marks from touching the painted bits - yup the lathe's now this clean!
With a working lathe, the new workshop is starting to feel a bit more homely at last.
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