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Thanks to all for your comments and suggestions. I have added a picture to better illustrate what is happening. The rounded piece is pine (or similar soft wood) and was purchased as a round dowel with a 2" diameter. It split in half as it was ejected from the lathe. The square piece is made from ...

Help - The lathe on my Mark V repeatedly throws whatever I mount off the machine. The seemingly obvious answer is that alignment beterrn head and tailstock is off but I have very carefully made the alignment per the instructions in the manual and I have used other alignment techniques as well ...