POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

Been working on a solution for the long threading I need to do. I was going to put 2 bearings behind the center that I made to hold the dome of the screw. But after thinking about it, and getting pretty far along, I decided maybe I should make a proper follow rest. The southbend follow rest is far away from the cutting tip. Since I'm cutting screws I am going to use ball bearings, they are hard enough to resist the sawing action of the screw. The follow rest will be mounted on the right side of the carriage, but travel over it using angle irons to the left side in line with the tooling. I'll make that adjustable.

LAST NIGHT: I replaced my 2" indicator with my cheap HF indicator. It's been accurate... I didn't have room for the 2" on the lathe ways, I wanted a stop point for threading. I put the HF on... I just got done with dinner and I see the plastic cover (crystal) is smashed. Lucky me, I don't feel bad losing a HF indicator. Not sure what happened, but better than the 2" or the Federal that I normally move in there. Whew...
 
I needed a carriage stop in my life, so had an old antenna mount and some scrap. Certainly not a precision project, and improvements will come, probably....
 

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woodchucker said:
Hey Snoopdog, what kind of lathe is that?
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Its a Central, Enco Grizzly copy, just brought it home a few weeks ago, 500! I need to find a 4 jaw chuck.
 

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snoopdog said:
Its a Central, Enco Grizzly copy, just brought it home a few weeks ago, 500! I need to find a 4 jaw chuck.
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I have the same lathe in 12x24, just picked it up a few weeks ago. really happy with it so far. I got lucky mine came with a 8 inch Bison 4 jaw chuck. I didn't get lucky on the QCTP though, mine came with the factory 4 way.
 
Too cold to be in the shop handling freezing metal parts and tools today (23F/-5C) so I sketched up a indicator holder in Fusion 360 for my lathe and 3d printed the prototype. Came out to a perfect fit on the first try, sometimes you get lucky I guess. When it is warm enough in the shop to work out there it will get made from aluminum for the final, although the 3d printed version is stout enough to use.
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Navy Chief said:
I have the same lathe in 12x24, just picked it up a few weeks ago. really happy with it so far. I got lucky mine came with a 8 inch Bison 4 jaw chuck. I didn't get lucky on the QCTP though, mine came with the factory 4 way.
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I'm pretty happy with it so far, haven't totally finished installation, leveling yet. Just trying to remember some things and practice a little. It seems I never have the materials I need when I'm puttering to make the things I come up with in my head. On top of that, a new job with varying hours has kept me sorta preoccupied, along with the cattle, and other projects that I had going beforehand.
 
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