| Year | 1939 |
| Date | 24-Aug |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1,998 |
| Page | 224 |
| Category | Lathe |
| Part | |
| Title | Refitting a Cheap Lathe |
| Author | "Ned" |
| Notes | Methods of improving its accuracy. Scraping out the headstock bearings, "Putting-on Tool" wanted! Form of scraper, fitting mandrel bearings, fitting fibre shims to headstock bearings, flat scraper for surfacing slides, cone pulley, three-cornered scraper, testing the friction of the sliding saddle, lapping out the bearings, checking parallelism of vee-ways, lapping slides, tailstock |