Jim, Its me glowing tonight. I had a couple of hours to spend trying to troubleshoot my feed reversing problem. I searched online last night and found that if it needs work you have to remove the headstock to get at it....not something I was looking forward to. So tonight I was playing with it and trying not to force anything too hard. I finally gave up after lubing everthing I could see and moved on to the feed stops. I was under the impression that because the stops are on the clutch rod that it would stop the spindle as well as the lead screw. Wrong. It only stops the lead screw. As I was moving the lever that would disengage everthing my lead screw started turning in reverse. I haven't gotten as far as cleaning and lubing all of the linkages yet, so it seems that the stop lever was all the way to the right and it wouldn't allow me to engage reverse feeds. I centered the lever and everthing works as it should. I'm a happy camper. The more I get into this machine the more impressed I am. It must have been one hell of a machine back in the day.That's just the glow of pride from all the work you've put into it.
It was one nice sweet machine back in it's time. You were top machinists in the shop to operate one, too!............... It must have been one hell of a machine back in the day.