metal lathe tail stock alignment

[jack barnes]

I need help, I seem to remember a discussion about tail stock alignment, but can't find it. How does one align a HF 7x10 ?

Jack

 

[holmqer]

I am not certain about the 7x10, but the 7x14 has the ability to shift the tailstock perpendicularly to the ways by a little bit to cut some tapers and to zero out.

If I look at the 7x10 tailstock casting on LMS
http://www.littlemachineshop.com/products/product_view.php?ProductID=1303&category=

it looks like you can do this.

You may be off up and down however. If the tailstock is too high, you can always perform some lapping or filing to drop the tailstock bore.

If the tailstock is too low, I would think some shimming could be done. I just have not had to think through how I would do that in this particular case.

 

[rherrell]

Try this.... http://tinyurl.com/mk34td:wink:

 

[Paul in OKC]

Another good site for these lathes http://www.mini-lathe.com/

 

[jack barnes]

Thanks everyone
I found the thread started by Daniel in 12/08 that I was thinking of.

Jack