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DD,
So, if I understand your situation correctly, you've adjusted your lathe first by using the unsupported test bar and achieved .0002 in 5". Then you checked your tailstock alignment with your new test bar supported between centers and achieved .0005 in the length of the test bar. But, when you put a part in the chuck and support it with the tailstock center it pulls it out of alignment by .002 in 3". Is this correct ?
Ted
So, if I understand your situation correctly, you've adjusted your lathe first by using the unsupported test bar and achieved .0002 in 5". Then you checked your tailstock alignment with your new test bar supported between centers and achieved .0005 in the length of the test bar. But, when you put a part in the chuck and support it with the tailstock center it pulls it out of alignment by .002 in 3". Is this correct ?
Ted