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Question: The Leblond Regal manual for 15" and 19" that's on the web, think no. 3538, requires lubrication fill and daily with SAE 20w20 api sc oil. However my lathe has a metal tag on headstock, looks like put there by maker, specifying fill for the headstock as "30W" oil. What's better...

Agree, an L1 for $ 45.00 is excellent, I will email him as soon as I confirm what-the-L size I have. Sry about the monster photos, will try harder at smaller ones unless huge serves some important purpose in the thread.

Thanks. I'll get dia of spindle nut and subtract double est. wall thickness and should be able to tell which it is. I called one of the parts suppliers looking for a spindle nut spanner, one suggested MSC would have a general-purpose spanner that should work. Is that true or is the lathe...

We followed Leblond's recommended lift method using a stout plank under bed near CG then a chain to keep the light end level; worked fine. It came with some large drills, a few cutters, large square tool post, Jacobs speedchuck and a bunch of the rubber collets for it, and some dogs. I haven't...

We've run this where we got it to check functions and all seems to work. We'll get it in place and level, check for adjustments etc. Have been reading manuals online etc. Have used much smaller lathes but not this size before. Have begun search for spindle nut spanner and a few other...