Opinions Please - Royal Products Lathe Chuck Stops?

Tom did you hand craft your own lathe chuck and dial calipers?
 
Franko said:
I've never seen the Palmgren cast iron stands. Great thing to have.
I made a support for mine with a modified keyboard bench and a lab jack stand.
I got tired of the scissor jack on the milk crate tumping over.
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That's even higher class than mine: 5 gallon bucket, and whatever scraps of wood that haven't made it to the dumpster, yet.
 
wawoodman said:
That's even higher class than mine: 5 gallon bucket, and whatever scraps of wood that haven't made it to the dumpster, yet.
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Its funny how many of us are using buckets and totes and shims as stands. I'm going to raise up my band saw at least 8 inches with a mobile stand. The problem is my saw is so low to the ground it was lower than any stand I could find. Plus the wheels don't swivel so I have to scrape the hard plastic wheels sideways across the floor to turn it which sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard.
 
Just for my clarification are these also called Spiders? It seems that there are a couple of different types of spiders that operate in completely different ways.

David
 
David no spiders as I understand them are 90 degree to axial bolts, typically 4 like a 4 jaw chuck that you use to hold for example a rifle barrel. Most typically to support the end of the barrel on the outer end of your spindle but I have heard people using them on both ends of the spindle.

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Coolidge that is the one that I saw and have made one of those as well. However I have seen another type that is called spider and it looks very much like the chuck stop we are talking about.

David
 
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