The new lathe was a model of mechanical simplicity and economical production with the saddle, apron and the cross-feed screw end bracket cast as one piece - as illustrated lower down the page. Although this mechanism gave a positive action, there was no compensating pad on top of the leadscrew to absorb the upward thrust. By now the lathe had begun to grow up and also been given the contemporary "streamline" treatment and, for the fist time, was fitted with an apron that carried a leadscrew half-nut the operating lever for which snapped into position through the operation of a spring-loaded ball detent. Marketed by Sears the new-for-1941-version of the AA109 6" x 18" at first carried the name "Dunlap", a name always used for the company's less-expensive models.
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