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Lathe Ball Turner

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The day has arrived to mount my ball turner.

I widened the tool slot in a BXA Tool Holder from 3/4" to a wee bit over an 1" by taking 0.150" off both top and bottom of the slot.

I used @thestelster 's trick to set the depth of cut. Set the cutter down on a piece of thin paper, zero my Z/U, then raise the knee by the thickness of the paper and added a thou. It worked perfect and cleaned off the old blackening on the bottom of the slot while widening to 1.050.

The 1" bar of the lantern style ball turner fit the slot perfectly. A bit of compound angle voodoo and I set the height with a tenth to spare.

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I'd guess that the rigidity isn't phenomenal, but it's gotta be better than if used as designed with a lantern style tool post.
 
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