I recently inhereted a CRAFTEX metal lathe, and know very little about machining. The lathe I have only has a serial no. but no model no. I have had dificulty in finding the manufacture on line so as to order a operators manual. If anyone out there has any suggestion I would be most appreciative.

A simple Google search turned up Busy Bee Tools. I tried the url for the US, but it didn't work. Trying the Canadian URL did. Here is it. Hopefully, they will be able to help you.

http://busybeetools.ca/cgi-bin/product10?&NMCLASS=00164&NSBCLASS=00269&NETID=1016401027061209860
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