<<<<<<<<<<nothing that looked too bad, at least to me.
Could this have warped the screw?>>>>
That would almost certainly cause the screw to bend....
What you should do is use a fixed steady on the lathe bed
and have maybe 2/3 of the screw sticking out of the chuck
with its free end being restrained by the steady. I can't
remember what the tailstock is like on a Craftsman lathe
but, if you can swap the positions of the tailstock and
saddle, you can use the tailstock as a steady passing the
work through temporary bushes at each end of the tailstock
barrel. What you are trying to achieve is like a Swiss Auto
lathe where the part of the work you are turning is held
securely in a close-fitting bush near to the tool. The part
of the screw still in the headstock spindle can be packed
with a bit of rag to stop it flying about.
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
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