Thread: Tailstock Turret

Originally Posted by Tez2

If you go onto ebay here you will find a vast selection of books available.
I have bought a few from them now.

I bought my copy of The Amateurs Lathe from them for $24.95 plus postage i think from memory. There available books in metalworking etc are quite large........

http://stores.shop.ebay.com.au/10clo...__W0QQ_armrsZ1

they are i Victoria Australia, and trade under the name of 10clow

Yep that's the one I bought mine off and pointed to a couple of posts back

https://www.woodworkforums.com/showpo...8&postcount=29

Back on to the topic, tailstock turret.

One of my orders from the US arrived today (shipped last Monday!) and it included the tailstock turret from Little Machine Shop.



Came in a snazzy timber box




Even had a temporary timber hold down nailed in!



Looks promising in the box and seems well made



Made up some 5/8" arbors for the various bits I want to use with it, such as centre drills and drill bits.



These still need to be finished and drilled to take the tools, but the start is there. Rough finish on the ends is from the horizontal bandsaw, couldn't be bothered parting them off?

In the same shipments I got 2 extra smaller drill chucks, a 1/4" and a 3/8" one, together with 5/8" straight arbors (J1 and J2), I will probably cut these shorter, they seem a bit long



Once I have finished the arbors for the centre drills etc I will put up a few more pics and give a users' report.

For less than $A100 including delivery, this will come in handy I think.

BTW the drill chucks were $US7 and US9 respectively!

looking good big shed i take it your using your lathe to do some fast production work? stuff for your bullet pens right?

Hello Bigshed,

Have you used the turret yet? any comments on quality, accuracy, repeatability etc?

It looks like a great tool. It would be good to hear its not junk before I order one.

Thanks
Graham

Definitely not junk, very happy with its' performance and repeatability.

So far have made 4 5/8" tool holders, 1 #3 centre drill, 2 different small drills (2.5 and 3.5mm) and a holder for a pin chuck to hold a 2mm drill. Still have to do one for a #5 centre drill and a 7mm drill.

Haven't used the 2 small chucks I purchased with it, nor have I cut their arbors shorter at this stage.

Will put up another photo soon to show the holders.

Highly recommended

As promised, a few more pics.

Have made some tool holders from the 5/8 mandrels that I turned previously.




These are now working well and have speeded up drilling operations enormously. That little pin chuck does a great job, next order from CDCO will include a few more.

Have also shortened one of the mandrels for the 2 smaller drill chucks, this is the 1/4" chuck. I reckon it could have been shortened a fair bit more, but was concerned about space either side.




The only "modification" I had to make to the turret was to the MT2 madrel. As it came it was just a tad short and hard to eject from the tail stock. About the same length as the mandrel on my live centre but that had a 3/8" roud head bolt in the back.
Put a 3/8" Whitworth bolt in (all I had) and turned it down to the diameter of the rear of the mandrel. It ejects beautifully now, problem solved.