The older lathes were certainly built to last. Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: <KJones9154@xxxxxxx> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:54 AM Subject: [modeleng] Re: Lathe for sale In a message dated 30/11/2008 12:30:12 GMT Standard Time, shep.28@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: It, too was extremely heavily built, but with a strange anomaly - the bed for the saddle was very wide, and then rising at least six inches above it was a subsidiary narrow bed for the tailstock! Hubert has just described my old 5inch Drummond lathe or something very similar. MODEL ENGINEERING DISCUSSION LIST. To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list, send a blank email to, modeleng-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line.