Lathe tailstock

[Ron Altier]

Have you ever been working on, or polishing a piece that is supported only by the chuck and bumped it off center. I have and have been able to use the tail stock attachments to get it back to center. Provided that they will fit. However, my attachments are small, I have a mini lathe. When the piece of work is too large to fit the attachments, such as a hole in a in a piece, my attachments will fit in the hole. I made a couple of wooden Oak pieces similar to the metal ones to solve that problem. The one time I tried it out, it worked.

I have NO intention using them for anything else. 

 

You can see the metal ones that go in the tail stock with bearings and the larger ones I made.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 

 

 

[lew]

That is a neat idea, Ron. Your tail stock center, with the removable points, sure makes that simpler. I've been tempted to make similar devices but my center has a fixed point. Maybe make something that would fit snugly over it.

[Cliff]

I have NO intention using them for anything else.

 

 

That won't help.  The ATF has already surrounded your shop and are closing in.

I think Jack Bauer is heading the Op up.

 

 

Nice solution.

  I've put  things on my tailstock to prevent things moving too.  I think the worst was a ten inch wood ball that got away from me and went howling across my shop.

Getting the dents out of that sucker took some doing.

[John Moody]

Those are very nice Ron. And hey they do the trick.

[Kevin Beitz]

Neat little story.....   Metal lathe...

 

I took an extra 8" 3 jaw chuck and made a mount for

it to fit in my tail stock for working on small thin parts.

One of the first time I used it I put in a 18" x 3/8" steel

rod. I had the speed set to high. When I turned it on the 

rod wound up like a spring. The weight of the chuck was

to much for the rod to handle... Well that din't work.

[Gene Howe]

Wanting to bore a deep hole using my Shopsmith in the horizontal mode, I chucked up an 18" extension with a 1/4" spade bit. IIRC, the speed was set at "slow". It was still fast enough to whip that extension across the way tubes. Put a nice dent in one and bent the he!! out of the extension. I figured the dent was enough to remind me not to try that again so, the extension got tossed.

Physics never was my strong suit. Apparently neither was/is common sense.

[Artie]

One of my Father’s favorite expressions was. “I guess you have to learn the hard way”.      Pretty much the only way I learn. Show up, try to do whatever, start learning what doesn’t work.