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Kind of a weird question, but Im looking for a way to "disengage" the carriage from the feed screw on my lathe. Currently I can just use the lever, but want to put an adjustable stop on it, mostly for safety. Sometimes I need to get really close to the chuck and it gets a bit nerve racking watching and playing "beat the buzzer". So far I have had no issues, but find it really draining and would love a way to make it stop feeding at a selected point. The lathe I have is a PM1027 and think it uses a half nut type idea on the feed ON/OFF handle, but not sure. I figured I would check here and see if anyone had ever done something similar. Would be nice to be able to run up to a collar and have the feed stop at the same spot every time.