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Friday 24 August 2018

Tail-stock Stand

I have a mini lathe and it came with a tail-stock. This is removable and I use the lathe without it quite often. It spends most of its time on a bench somewhere, or propped up against the back of the lathe. The design of the tail-stock means that it can't stand up in it's normal operating orientation and so has to lie on it's side or lean against something. This started to irritate me. I thought of a shelf, then decided to make this:


 The tail-stock rests in it like this:



I then mounted the stand on the side of the shelf unit I built around the lathe:


It's now in a space that I couldn't really use for anything else. We'll see how good an idea this was as I use the lathe for future projects.





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