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You are quite right there Joe about plain bearings and surface finish.OK you can't get the top speeds, but I and many others have found that a correctly lubricated plain head will give far superior surface finishes.It was the same on my old Atlas. The original Babbitt bearings gave far better finishes than when I converted it to a Timken bearing head.John