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Saddle Stop for Raglan 5inch Lathe

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DMIOM:
David,

I don't know your lathe, or what force your stop needs to take - but I just wonder if it might be worth considering fitting a calibrated adjuster instead of just a plain stop?

Dave

chipenter:
Those lathes are brilliant instant stop on the feed , the factory one are cast my friends hase been welded more than once .

Meldonmech:
Hi Dave

            The earlier Little John Lathes did have a big problem due to the trigger stopping mechanism sticking. This resulted in shear pins being broken, and hand traversing rack pinions having teeth sheared off, and other nasty incidents involving chucks and tooling. As a result, Raglan were heavily criticized by the users, which resulted in them redesigning the mechanism to be instantly  positive. It was fitted to the Raglan 5inch Lathe, and has proven to be one of the best designs ever, and it has performed faultlessly for me.

                                                    Cheers David

Meldonmech:
Hi Jeff

                Yes the saddle stop was an iron casting, but from my experience I would be surprised if your friends saddle stop was broken during normal use. If it had been dropped, or something had fallen against it, I think that would be more Likely.

                                                             Cheers David

vtsteam:
Nice job, David!  :thumbup:

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