are these scrape marks or just a worn honest bed
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Logan bed, near the chuck, has a patch that looks flaked in a pattern. The middle of the bed is smoother and shinier. I can't tell if somebody scraped it back to life or if I'm looking at wear and wishing. Picture didn't upload. Again.
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Shinier in the middle is the carriage living there. Flakes near the chuck can be a scrape, or they can be the casting breaking out. Run a fingernail across it. Scrape flats have edges. Pits have holes. This is not mystical.
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Indicate the carriage along the bed with a test bar between centers. Pattern does not matter if the bar says two thou in ten inches. Pattern matters if you plan to scrape. You are not scraping this month.
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Fingernail says flakes, not pits. Bar between centers, ten inches, a thou and a bit of nod, worse at the headstock end. I'm not scraping. I'm cutting shorter work and stopping the speech I was about to give myself.
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Good. The scrape fantasy is how people ruin a bed that was still a bed.
the chip is the picture
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