I know I wrote a long time ago about truing up my 3 jaw chuck jaws with a Dremel mounted on the toolpost, but don't think I wrote about this simple other project here.
I needed to drill some evenly spaced mounting holes in a small engine head without removing it fro the chuck on the lathe, and i don't have a rotary table to fit it for the mill. Lots of ways to do this anyway, of course, but i wanted to try something right on the lathe with a flexible shaft tool I bought a long time ago. So here's a really quick little project I tried that worked out well.
First I cut a chunk of scrap aluminum into a piece small enough to make one of my round tool post type quick change tool holders:
