New to me..........Emco Compact 8 Lathe

Thanks again, the tool post does spin round 360° something else Ive learnt, next question, who can ID these strange accessories that was in the boxes
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#2 & #3 looks like a crude ball turning devices, and #4 is some sort of a fast action movement widget ? Got me on the first one at moment:frown 2:
 
Speeds, Ive 3 on this I think, if for example I wanted to turn down a piece of steel or alloy and I wanted a smooth finish, what size, width cutting tool at what speed?

Thanks
 
I don’t know the technical name for the bolt, pivot bolt? But most of that style of QCTP I see has just a nut on it. So the Allen head would be an improvement as far as clearance IMHO As there’s not much clearance between it and the height adjustment. Personally I’d make another bolt with a head like the locking stud uses so I could use that same handle on both of them.

My clone came with an AXA style QCTP and they made a nut with a handle on it. It works but having two handles so close together took a little getting used to and sometimes it interferes. Yours the handle isn’t attached so it would be easy to swap.

The unmodded thing on my 9x20 clone was the nut on the tailstock lock. I took a camlock kit meant for the 7x lathe tailstock and adapted it to my tailstock. Made life so much easier as I move the tailstock a lot!
You got any pics you can post, I'd like to modify the tailstock lock as its a pain as is
 
You got any pics you can post, I'd like to modify the tailstock lock as its a pain as is
I used the kit from Little Machine Shop to mod the 7x lathe tailstock.


It was one of my first big projects with my mill/drill. I hope you can see the material on inside top of the tailstock frame so the eccentric had room to work and then bore through for the eccentric. I used one of the drill arms off my mill as the handle. Overall it’s been a really good project and way better than it was with the silly locking bolt/wrench. The problem is the groove/ramp? underneath the frame the bolt engages with was not machined parallel to the ways. So where the handle locks is not the same depending on where you are on the ways. The final mod I need to make is a new bottom retainer for the locking bolt as its silly and often goes cockeyed because it has a slot for the bolt head. Hope this helps.
 

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