Originally Posted by
surfdabbler
The thread still looks very good, so I hadn't thought of wear, but perhaps you are correct. The lathe hasn't had a very hard life of use. If anything, it's had a hard life of long periods of neglect. But I've cleaned it up, and it's all running pretty nicely at the moment.
Here's a couple of photos, before and after restoration. (The tailstock and cross-slide aren't in the first photo, but they were pretty badly rusted before hand).
With the lack of 1" machine nut handy, I'll probably just get a chuck with a 1" fitting, and work out what to do later if it doesn't fit. :)