Making pretty good progress. I discovered a change was made by a previous owner, which was obvious when I bought it, but when they made the change they (for some unknown reason) eliminated one of the fore/aft thrust bearing for the table. So, after staring at it a while I decided I need to make it right. I found an ebay seller offering 4 of these bearings for $12, which considering Grainger wanted $30 for 1 of them, I figured 3 spares would go in a drawer. What I have to do is machine a recess in the knob for one of these so the knob can go flush. This meant I could to continue assembly. I assembled it as though the correction is done (had to adjust inner thrust bearing and stop) and just put a shim washer in there for now to keep the knob from using the paint as a wear surface, for now.
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The rest is just going together smooth as butter. All the small parts cleaned up nice. Tomorrow the rest of the "detail painting" can be done on the "black spots" (the background for the white lettering) and then the motor goes on. I'm thinking I'm done by Thursday with this until I get those bearings. I can use it as is, as the previous owner did, but these thrust bearing make moving the table fore and aft and left and right - under the force of moving an end mill through a piece of metal - so much easier.
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