Help with Spacer

teacherman · Post by **teacherman** » Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:52 pm

Mike907 wrote:I was finally able to make bushings, drill and tap the feet of the lathe stand, and install the leveling casters.

After wandering around Lowes, I couldn't find anything that I thought would work for bushings, so I ordered a 7/8" diameter piece of aluminum bar stock. 7/8" is about .02 too big, so I turned it down with a skew chisel, which worked fine, but catches in aluminum are impressive! The inverted cone in the Nova Live Center set worked great for holding the tail end of the bar stock and keeping it centered. Bored a 1/2" hole in the bar stock and sawed off the bushings.

After drilling and tapping the stand, I went with JPG's suggestion of all-thread without nuts.

The lathe rolls well and is very stable with the pads lowered.

Thanks again for the help.

Mike

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Looks great!