steady rest

[fkrel]

Just picked up a 10-326 steady rest with new brass inserts off E-bay for $100 I have been looking for one for awhile but people think they are made of gold.

 

[pontiac428]

Good deal! For all of the Atlas lathes being parted out and sold on ebay these days, it surprises me that something like a steady is so highly priced. If Atlas produced roughly one for every lathe, then there should be a surplus on those. It's not like they universally wear out or get damaged...

 

[stupoty]

If Atlas produced roughly one for every lathe, then there should be a surplus on those. It's not like they universally wear out or get damaged...

I think the main problem is as follows.

Some one clearing out a workshop "Whats that thing ? ow well in the metal scrap it go"



Stu

 

[wa5cab]

Yep, that plus Atlas didn't sell one to everyone who bought a lathe. For example, if a buyer also bought an armature chuck kit and commutator undercut kit with a 10" or 12", or for that matter 6", the buyer was probably buying it for motor rebuilding and wouldn't have had any use for a steady rest.

 

[fkrel]

My original plan was to just build one and looked at a few online that were crude but did work for them. I have plans of building a couple driveshafts this summer for my offroad jeep so I have been watching ebay and craigslist when I found this one and I was the only one that bid on it, there were plenty of them for $200 and up so I feel lucky that I got this one.