tailstock

I belong to a community woodshop and recently our tail stock won’t tighten on my mandrel saver. It will tighten somewhat, but the blanks will still catch and spin. When I try to tighten the tail stick the handle seems to start threading out rather than tightening. One of the guys took it apart...

I posted this on another website but wanted to share this with you. "I'm sure this is nothing new to this group but wanted to share this for anyone taking time to clean up the shop. I have spent the last three days cleaning up the shop, organizing items in like function or use, and looking at...

Since I started turning pens about a month ago, I have hade the classic problem of out of round pen barrels which is really noticable when twisting the pen to retract the tip. The discovered the headstock to tailstock alignment on my Jet 1642VS lathe was off more than 1/16" at the end of the...

I'm wondering if anyone out there has had this problem. I finally broke down and bought a 60 degree revolving center for the tailstock. The problem is, when I tried to remove the live center from the tail spindle, only the top of it came out (the portion that normally would contact the...