All: My search for my first lathe continues. You were helping me on a thread I posted a while ago. The two we discussed earlier were sold before I had the guts to pull the trigger. Something just came up for sale in my price range that caught my attention. It is a Walker Turner L1152. It has #2 morse taper centers. Spindle is 1" O.D with 12 treads per inch, right and left hand threads. 15 1/2" over gap, and 12" over bed. It does have a reeves drive. Do you think this would be a suitable machine?
If the reeves were to give me too much trouble, I would have no issues dumping it and putting in a 3phase motor with a vfd for speed control.