[mick]

BTW, Thinking.....the above description of a lathe made on a lathe would be a VERY primitive piece of machinery....something out of shop class in the 1890’s I would think!

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, a lathe that primitive would still be incomplete just because you couldn’t make a leather belt on the lathe to connect the new lathe to the lineshaft! ;-)

But a lathe still isn’t a lathe without the ways.