Dear Al Thanks for this message. I loaned my copy of Sparey's 'The Amateur's Lateh' to someone in the dim-and-distant past, and in the nature of these things, they never returned it. A fiend has a copy, which I will borrow (AND return! Thanks for this information. What a luvverly helpful site this is! Cheers from Hubert, in rainy St Albans > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:19:52 -0700 (PDT) > From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [modeleng] Re: Boring Bearings > > Hubert, If you have a copy of Sparey's book, The > Amateur's Lathe, look at Fig. 137 on Page 135 where a > boring bar betwen centers is being used to face the > end of a casting. I think you could use a > modification of this proceedure to do the recesses for > the bearing flanges on your lathe headstock. > 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.