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Making a large Lathe Fixed Steady from scrap ..

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Darren:
I have some 5" SS pipe that  needed to be cut .... pref square !!

So I needed a large fixed steady for the lathe ... an old rear brake disc and an old lorry part for the base. Both parts are cast steel which is very nice to machine.


Cleaned the brake disc up a little to get rid of the rust ... it's a rough quick finish, will tidy later..



Need to make some locating slots for these three fingers from my normal sized steady



Used the milling machine and bolted the disc to my rotary table to index at 120 degrees







Cut one flat edge



Starting the base from a part from an old lorry ..





Which fits here



Cut a slot in the base to fit the brake disc



Cutting the bell off the disc



And here we are, nearly done ... need to weld the two parts together



A mock set-up to see if it all looks ok

dsquire:
Darren

Good use for old brake rotors. Too bad a person only needs one or two steadies.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

John Rudd:
Ahhh...they say mother is the necessity of invention..... :coffee:

Very innovative Darren..... :bow:

Nice job...

saw:
Nice work  :clap: :clap:

PekkaNF:
Excellent! I have a rusty brake rotor "ageing" to be reborn as a tramming aid.  Now I probably have to get onother :beer:

Just collecting my braincells together and trying to figure out how to make both sided really parallel. Probably have to mount faceplate first and that will need an adapter....

Pekka

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