I was thinking about mounting a collet closer on my lathe tonight. I've had a Royal collet closer sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. It was on the very first lathe I had. The lathe was a 12-36 Taiwanese model....don't remember the brand. I sold the lathe to a friend and he never used the closer so I traded some stuff for it thinking I would mount it on something. After thinking it through, I decided that I have kind of gotten used to using a drawbar and I really don't want to mount the closer. In the time it takes me to modify the closer and mount it I could probably have a drawbar made up. If someone out there has a 12-36 Asian lathe and wants a bolt on closer I would be willing to sell it. It could be used on basically any lathe with a 1.375 spindle bore.....the length would have to be altered to fit. I can takes some pics if anyone is interested.
Chuck
Chuck