Nothing much to add this week. Spent the beginning of the week shellacing the carousel. Gave it 4 coats and that will be enough for me. By the way if there are Hardinge Cataract QC owners reading this that would like a collet tray I made a second one and that one is available. Just drop me a line through the comment block and we'll talk.
Spent some time back and forth with an other Cataract owner in California who just recently picked up a Cataract QC that is missing all the headstock parts. Unfortunately with only so many made spare parts are pretty near non existent. This owner has decided that he will be parting out the lathe as much as he can. So myself and a few other Cataract QC owners are talking to him about trying to gather whatever parts we need to refurbish our machines. Unfortunately like the majority of  us he does not have the taper attachment, collet draw bar, steady rest, follower rest, and a few other items. Hopefully everybody had a nice week and we'll see you next weekend.

Harold