I took the entire cross slide assembly apart today and worked on cleaning it up. Someone apparently crashed it into the chuck or some work at one time, so there is some gouging on the headstock side. This won't effect functionality, but I will try to figure out a way to make it look nicer. Other than that, the parts all cleaned up very nicely. After discussing it online, I'm setting up for scraping and will look at scraping the cross slide dovetails, though I'll likely spend a lot of time on practice before launching into something real. It should be possible to restore the functionality to original condition with scraping. I ordered a new surface plate and other things to attack that project starting next week.
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