Hot on the heels of the write up I submitted on changing the bearings to tapers for my minilathe, I thought I'd share the making of a qctp that I knocked up to replace the original toolpost as supplied by Sieg.
I'm not doing a blow by blow account of this project as it uses all basic skills...Measuring marking cutting etc...Stuff we all know.
Having already fitted a qctp to my Chester 9*20, the idea for a tp for the minilathe came easy...Just copy the bigger one!!

So off to find a suitable lump of bright hard stuff, me and 'Er inddors came up with this...

It was the best that was to hand without going out and buying yet more material and having to wait for the postie to deliver it...
The main dimensions of the base block were approx 50mm*50mm, taken from the compound slide on the minilathe. I guessed the height of the block to ensure the tool holders would have sufficient adjustment for centre height.
After cleaning up the sawn end in the 4jaw on the lathe I ended up with this...
