Reply To: Buying a lathe

[michael weaver]

Thanks fellas! David, you are speaking a different language to me. I did put a collet in and ran the tailstock to it and the point lined up perfectly with the middle of the collet. The only thing I have as far as measurement devices is a digital caliper and an outside diameter starrett micrometer that measures to the 1000th. I don’t own an inside micrometer. Can any of what you mentioned be achieved with what I have?