[Zabco]

Really glad to hear that the damage is not as bad as feared and that you will be able to get it fixed.

I have the tables that Sherline has for both imperial and metric threads for their lathes, it's just that I always have to look up the instructions as to where A gear goes and B gear goes, etc. BTW I would recommend that you ditch the Open Office program and replace it with Libre Office. Both are free and both started from the same source code. But Open Office is not being worked on and has not had an update in over 10 years. Libre office has an active group of workers constantly working on updates. I found that it works much better.

3 in 1 oil should work just fine. I use a gun oil just because I have it. Been using it for over 15 years with no problems.

I usually buy rod and tubing from either ksmetals.com or mcmaster.com depending on size and material. Probably not the cheapest sources but I have never had any kind of shipping issue with either one. My LHS does not keep up their stock of raw materials like they used to so I had to go to internet orders.