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Any one here ever thought about building a custom tail stock from scratch?...... Asking for a friend.....
May I ask how you accomplished this? My SB9 only has 2” of travel and I would have to extend the quill housing out the rear to increase the travel.You can make an extension to increase the tail stock travel. I did one on my sb9 and it’s very handy to have the extra travel
That looks really nice...This is a tailstock I made for a Delta wood lathe. I cast the aluminum body. Bored it on the Jet mill with the head rotated to horizontal. Homemade boring bar. I bought the piece of Acme threaded rod from McMaster along with the ball oilers. It is bolted to a steel plate stepped to guide & bear on the lathe bed. I taper bored, then reamed a MT2 into the spindle. My casting setup is pretty crude. You can see a corner didn't fill, likely due to poor runner design on my part or the rate that I was pouring. It's been in use for several years.
I like that very much, it is a good solution.I followed the plans from this youtuber
I had to tweak the design a little as my SB9 is older than the workshop series, but it worked out really well.View attachment 473050View attachment 473054View attachment 473051View attachment 473052View attachment 473053