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I take no responsibilities for anything resulting from someone else trying any of my construction techniques, I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm no expert, you have been warned.

Gathering bits and thoughts.	Tapping the drill press's taper for mill conversion. Power off right?! Plug unplugged?!?!?!

One of the engine mounts started to look like the apron of a lathe, so after a few plasma cuts and grindings, it is.	Finally ground down the rough edges for the lathe table.
clampup of the apron and the lathebed table (top view)	clampup of the apron and the lathebed table (bottom view)

pieced together a fly cutter out of washers nuts and a hose clamp.	Closeup of fly cutter.
And now after running the flycutter for several hours and hacksawing the apron in two and filing we have a mostly finished apron, and a thingy to thread for tool feed holder.

used a grinder setup to get the surface of the tool mover thingy more or less flat

Closeup of flat surface (its not that good but good enough for now.)

setup for welding in the bolt for the 4 jawed chuck.

setup for movable jaw attach points

setup for other two of four 'jaws' or at least their holders.

setup for welding other two of the four jaw guides.	setup for movable jaw attach points	setup for roughly turning the chuck circular, a grinder was held by hand and the device rotated by hand.
This shows the homemade bolts for adjusting the jaws, and the round hole drilled in the center. I'll be making a punch for turning these holes square.	Finally realized I had an airhammer errr make that air precision metal file ;-)	The base is assembled

Bent rebar and buildups for bolt nut threads.	First attempt at putting in bolt threads, failed, welded bits too hard in spots, broke drillbit, had to cut out large section..
Finished, more or less.	tail is too long, but I'm going to wait to see where I should cut it off.

1937 Lathe bed setup after cleaning, might have to make a steel table to keep belts from rubbing.

1937 Lathe table to keep belts from rubbing, and provide handy hangars.	1937 Lathe table to keep belts from rubbing, and provide handy hangars.	Center-steady, knurling tool, and 300#? of ballast to keep things from moving around...	more handy hangars for 3 and 4 jawed chucks and faceplate, dogs.
Center-steady, knurling tool, and 300#? of ballast to keep things from moving around...	more handy hangars for 3 and 4 jawed chucks and faceplate, dogs.

Shows setup for 8 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 23 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 46 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 36 TPI RH threads.
Shows setup for 70 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 17.5 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 4 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 35 TPI LH threads, probably not the best way to do this (note missing gear to reverse direction).
Shows setup for 175 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 350 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 7 TPI RH threads.	Shows setup for 5.5 TPI LH threads, note extra gear just to reverse direction.
Shows the little nub used to put the head stock into compound low at a ratio of 6/31st the speed.	Pull the lever to get a low 6/31st the speed.	Table of possible gear ratios, note some of the lower speeds might be too hard on the gears, click for better image.	Spindle speed chart. click for better image.

Got a piece of steel to hand stuff like oil drip and covers and lights and things off of.