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Here is a project I made about 2 years ago to index the spindle of my lathe. I was using it to index the spindle for broaching splines on a reaccuring job I have. The hub uses 2 1/2" diameter x 3/8" thick index wheels with a center hole that matches to the center hole in the change gears of my South Bend 9", that way I can use the change gears also with a different plunger. I have 3 index wheels made with 2 patterns on each wheel, gives me a ton of variations to use (2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,18,20,25,30,36,50) plus any combination that falls in the change gears. The bar that the index pin goes thru is simply clamped to the steel tubed edge of my lathe bench, really need to go ahead and drill holes and make it so it repeats when I clamp it on. This design could be adapted to any number of lathes.