MobilMan
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Started turning a Wall Street11 with corn cob & noticed the right hand bushing jumping around. Very visible amount. Cob out of balance, so kept turning til it was round & somewhat smaller. Still got a dancing bushing. Something wrong here. I had just turned a Wall Street11 Click & it was running perfect. LOML latched on to that one as soon as it was assembled. "That's Mine. It's not going in the pen case". Anyway, wassa matter here? I had the slimline bushing-the WS bushing-the blank-the WS bushing then a turned blank as a spacer then nut. I had used two small homemade slimline bushings on the last setup for spacers. So I reset the setup same as before. Back to the lathe. Runs perfect again. I can normally move the tailstock away from the mandrel & the runout is hard to see. Almost perfect. I always put the mandrel in the headstock kinda loose then slide the tail forward into the end of the mandrel with a easy push then lock the tail end & finish setting the mandrel with the crank. I don't tighten the knurled nut, just snug. That way instead of a catch, it stops the blank. Just lighten up on the pressure of the gouge. Beats the heck outta me. The blank spacer is same as ready to make a pen, been milled & polished. The reason I posted this here is there a lot of 'wobble' questions here & maybe changing the setup will help in some cases. Anyone else ever had this happen?