As to how the first lathe was built,I wasn't there but hand filing and waterwheel turning was plentiful. I have a friend who deals in antiquities like color manuscript pages from the middle ages and old coins, showed me an old coin about the size of a nickle that was hollow. One half unscrewed off the other half and there were fine internal and external threads. He said it was a hand made coin to show off the skill of the craftsman (I think German). It was reportedly made a couple of hundred years ago. I asked on this forum a couple of years ago how the D John Deere could have the short wheel base for the approx. 40 hp when later 40 hp row crops had to be so long. A reply said the D radiator assembly had to be mounted with a fork lift..it weighed about 600 lbs! The upside of short wheel bases (like the Fordson) was the turning radius was reasonable even though the steering mechanism was crude and didn't let the wheels turn very sharply left or right. Leonard
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