Hi All

I was lucky enough to come across some bits and pieces for the 260, I found a guy that was willing to sell me his attachments he has never used that had come with his lathe, his lathe came from the CSIRO and was quite well equipped.

In the lot there was a Turret, form/parting slide, travelling steady, taper turning attachment and he also sold me a dividing head with the 3c collet attachment for the milling attachment with 2 extra division plates being 36 and 48.

The turret has never been used as it is still 5/8" bore diameter and I remember reading that is how they were sent out so you could bore them to your machine.

It was also interesting to see that the inch per feet scale was left off of the 260 taper attachment.

On a side note though is it was interesting to compare the parting slide and the taper attachment from the 9" to the 260, they are almost identical except the saddle bracket on the 260 taper slide has the hole in it for the stop shaft to go through for the micro switch and obviously the cross slides are different heights but you could always pack up the tool post if you were to fit a 9" taper attachment on the 260, same as the parting slide, it is pretty well identical except the stops are on the opposite sides but that can always be milled out to fit a 9" slide on the 260 and the tool post height will be different but that isn't a big job to make a couple of new units to replace them, also the turret attachment is the same on the main slide part except that to fit a 9" unit to a 260 you would need to make a new stud and taller turret head or add a bit to the bottom of the 9" to lift it up, there is a little bit of work in that one but it is definitely achievable.
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