Quest -- A Good Steady Rest

[Bill Gruby]

Hello all -- My lathe is a Jet 9X20. Yes it is Asian in origen, but that's where the similarity ends. I bought it at a garage sale in 7 seperate boxes. There were parts for everything imaginable in there. It took 3 years to get it to where it is now. Nothing on it is metric anymore.

So in starting a new project, a 1/6 scale P&W 1830 Radial Engine I found the steady rest inadiquate for this build, it was too small. Off we went looking for a better one. Not to be found that could be adapted. Off to the drawing board (See Below)

Over the next few days I will show you the whole build of this Steady Rest. From start to finish it took 100 hrs. Hope you enjoy this build.

"Billy G"