A Spring Loaded Center

[ThunderDog]

It's been a while, but I just wanted to share my recent project. I hope it can inspire some newbies like myself.
If any pros have some tips or positive feedback I'm always open to that too!!

 

[MrFixIt]

Nicely done!

 

[Wreck™Wreck]

Some machines with live tailstocks use spring loaded centers.

 

[rwm]

I like it! I may need one for tapping.
Robert

 

[ThunderDog]

Now, I just need the motivation to finish that blessed Atlas mill restoration. I've never encountered a machine with so many tiny parts.

 

[British Steel]

Useful tool, not just for tapping etc.: by bringing the tailstock centre up into the centre-drilled hole on the back end to compress it lightly you can use it to centre a marked (centre-punched) location in the 4-jaw, put the sprung point in the pop-mark, put DTI on the sprung shaft and you can bring the pop-mark to centre just like centring a shaft in the 4-jaw. Possibly the quickest and easiest way to centre oddly-shaped parts for drilling/boring/internal threading!

Dave H. (the other one)