Can anyone give me any info on this?!?

[SouthernChap]

One of the levers, a sort of shifter fork I'm not a fan of the design. It's just metal on metal. I'm thinking their should be some kind of brass or bronze bushing or something

Assuming both surfaces are steel, bearing bronze (not aluminium bronze) would theoretically provide a better coefficient of friction than steel on steel or brass on steel.

That said, if there's any grease or oil in the mix (which I guess would be likely in a gear box) plus any contaminants (and every gearbox in the kind of conditions we're likely to have, has those), the coefficient of friction can drop quite drastically in all cases.

Using that 'fork' style of part to shift a set of gears along a shaft is a fairly common one. If the shifting is smooth, and you can't see any obvious signs of wear, I'd not worry overly and just enjoy your new lathe.

 

[brino]

I tried to post the manual here but it says the file is to large.

@kpschafer

The original file you emailed me was 13.4MB PDF.
I was able to produce a decent looking version that was only 7.1MB, but I could not upload it to this thread; still told it was too large.

I went and checked the "downloads" section since I remember fighting to get a previous manual small enough.
There I had once commented that I could upload 50MB!

I was able to put the original 13.4MB file here:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/resources/nodo-tornos-cilindricos-lathe-model-160-a-in-spanish.3731/

Thanks,
Brian