Home Machine Shop Projects
Steady Rest
Ball bearings mod and a new clamping plate with a quick-lock lever to make it much easier to set.
Headstock Mods
A metal gear and tapered roller bearings for the new 100mm spindle plus a new gears lever on the front.
Mini lathe bed
It was the time to finally prepare the bed for the overall work done and also for the planned mods.
Lathe chucks
A chuck repair try, to improve runout on a 3 jaws chuck, plus a simple and most useful set-tru feature.
Apron mods
A new halfnuts lever, a new gears shaft and a disengageable apron handwheel.
Blade guides
Bandsaw blade guides milled, drilled and taped for fine adjustment screws.
Spindle Nuts Wrench
A set of two spindle nuts wrenches, made on the lathe.
Norman Patent Toolholder
A QCTP design from 1925.
Spindle Cleaning Tool
Easy to make and very useful for when using MT3 tooling on spindle.
Parting Toolholder
With back rake angle.
Cross Slide Extension
With thrust bearing and lock-nut.
Carriage Lock
Choosing where to do it.
Center Finder
A sping center for use as center finder and for taping.
Leadscrew Handwheel
With 60 divisions dial and a disengageable handwheel.
