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Stilldrillin:
John,
I`ve shortened all the sleeves for my MT2 tailstock.......




With only 1.5" of ram travel, lopping over 1/2" off the end made a big difference.

I cut off with the angle grinder, then tidied the cut end in the lathe.

David D

bogstandard:
Nice one David,

Proved to John (and everyone else) that it can be done and it works.

John

John Hill:
I did my drill arbor,  nicked it around with the grinder then sawed it off.  :ddb:

  I am still trying to figure how to hold it in the lathe to tidy the end.

bogstandard:
Put a chuck on the drill arbor, then a bit of bar in the drill chuck, and hold the bar in your lathe chuck. Then maybe support the end you want to machine with your fixed steady. A little flimsy, but it should let you get the job done.

Bogs

John Hill:
Thats exactly what I did John but the fixed steady, which I had never used before,  needed a bit of 'initialisation' first!  But I got all the grub screws in place eventually and it went quite well.

I think I will just counterbore the others, if my drill bits are up to the task, this first arbor was certainly soft enough inside to be drilled out.

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