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| bogstandard:
To compliment Ralph's mill backstop, here is one for your lathe chuck. This is an extract from an email I sent to a good friend. Find attached a C-o-C for a chuck backstop. You might need to find out if the morse taper can fit thru your chuck, if it does, then just use a length of bar to tap it back out from the rear of the spindle when you have finished. I have turned the tapered bit down before now, so it isn't as wide at the big end, just to get it to fit thru the chuck. With all my backstops, I just turn up a range of rod lengths and diameters and use what is required for the job. I hope it can be understood. Bogs |
| SPiN Racing:
OK Waitaminute... Insert Noob comment here. My Lathe has.. the ability for rod to be passed through it. I think 0.8 diameter. Are you saying that.. the end of it might be a MT taper? Inside the threaded end? (Threaded where the chuck goes onto it) Im at work or I would bundle myself up and go out to the garage and check. |
| bogstandard:
Spin, If it is any sort of normal lathe it should have a morse taper socket in the spindle nose. Going by the diameter you have mentioned, it would most probably be 3MT. If it is a 3MT, you could easily take your chuck off and mount in MT collets. Just make yourself a drawbar to hold them in and tighten them up, away you go, precision machining. But only for short lengths of material. Bogs |
| John-Som:
Thanks John To suit my particular lathe, which has very limited space behind the chuck - well actually there isn't any space at all. I shall modify the soft MT3 taper by removing all the excess overhang and fitting with a threaded rod and lock nut as per C-o-C John S |
| bogstandard:
Nice one John. Where did you get the blue C-o-C from? John |
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