Can You Use A Dead Center

Try a live center from Global Tooling Solutions, They are on the web, call Karl if you have questions. They sell via a number of distributors as well. Decent stuff, I have one of their live center kits. Handy and wont break the bank

They, like most other vendors, stop at MT1 for their smallest live centers. My poor little Craftsman 109 has the chopped MT0 tailstock. It is fairly easy to cut a new dead center, but making a live center is on the list of projects.