03-09-2013, 08:14 AM
Well today I did some work on my lathe and one of the tasks was to make a stop to prevent me running my carriage into my tailstock, an damaging the scale I have. I don't have a DRO on this lathe, just a basic magnetic readout on the x-axis. Nothing flash about this job, just a 3/8-16 carriage bolt screwed into the tailstock - quick, easy and it does the job:
Hard up against the carriage
Hard up against the carriage
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