Die Holder

I have no way to hold dies on the lather. I have just bought a collet chuck for the lather tailstock so it seemed sensible to try to make a die holder for the collet chuck. The collets I have only go to 20mm and the dies are 25mm, so they can't just go in to a collet.

One end was turned to 19.5mm so it will fit into a collet. The other end is bored out to hold the die.

The final die holder has four tapped holes around the edge to hold and align the die.

I have some smaller screws coming...