(11-12-2016, 08:37 PM)Mayhem Wrote: Nice score Rob but I think you will actually need to take the old one off first. Mounting the Dickson toolpost behind it won't be of much benefit.
Hi Darren
Dam ! I thought something did not look quite right
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I have a vague and dim recollection that when I took the four way off one of my Colchester Students many years ago to fit a Dickson, the spigot for the four way was part of the casting of the top slide. Rather than wreck it I made a new top slide.
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(11-13-2016, 04:27 AM)awemawson Wrote: I have a vague and dim recollection that when I took the four way off one of my Colchester Students many years ago to fit a Dickson, the spigot for the four way was part of the casting of the top slide. Rather than wreck it I made a new top slide.
Got to ask Andrew , why would anyone ever want to put a ye oldie 4 way tool post back on , did you ? I bet the old top slide is just sitting in a draw some where just taking up space .
Mine will just be modified to take the Dickson tool post . Saving time,space and materials
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The four way has a lot more rigidity than the Dickson which is quite a cantelever
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(11-13-2016, 06:26 AM)awemawson Wrote: The four way has a lot more rigidity than the Dickson which is quite a cantelever
Well yes , a lantern tool post is even stiffer again . All the machine shops I have been in only the larges lathes still use an old style shim up tool post .
So did yours ever go back on ?