Lever Tailstock

7mag

That seems like another way to go. Did you make this one up your self? I thought of adding a small T/S with a lever to my lathe, but wondered about weight.

Looks like cool piece your building there.

Paul
 
Yes, I'm building this myself. I needed a tailstock to drill and tap threaded bushings, 0-80, 2-56, and 4-40. I was lucky that the bed on the little Schaublin has a square shape. I milled and ground a base of cast iron to fit the bed. Bolted and pinned a piece of cold rolled 1018 to the base. I then used progressively larger drills in the headstock and pushed the tailstock into them to get the center. I will bore the tailstock out larger at a later time and put bronze bushings in it. It is working pretty good now.
 
I don't know how small the lathe is you are referring to, but here is mine which is a 9X20 Jet. Pretty easy! There is more info under my content.image.jpgimage.jpg
 
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