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jorogi

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So whilst waiting for "stuff" to arrive I decided to fix a pet peeve of mine with my SB 9. For the one person not familiar with the tailstock, it is secured by a nut and bolt down the center. On mine at least it takes more throw to lock and release than is available and in a tight set up it can take several twists with a 12 point box end to work.
I made a new bolt but instead of the stock 7/16-14 I went with 7/16-11. Of course that required a new nut, but alas I don't have a 7/16-11 tap. Not to worry, single point. Except I don't have any tools that will fit in that size hole and have a large enough point. Not to worry, I have a grade 8 bolt I could make a tap with. Being slow wifey put me to bed before I could finish. Some how through the wee hours I came up with yet another plan, I have a crappy old 5/8-11 tap, a couple of minutes on the grinder and I'll have a 12 point threading tool, go big or go home right ? Well an hour and a half later I did. Worked a treat.
Works great, almost makes me look like I know what I'm doing, never mind the how long questions.
Oh yeh the moral of the story, WTB. Anyone have a SB cast tailstock wrench ?
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SB on left, Johnny's on the right and 12 point threading tool up top.
 
jorogi said:
So whilst waiting for "stuff" to arrive I decided to fix a pet peeve of mine with my SB 9. For the one person not familiar with the tailstock, it is secured by a nut and bolt down the center. On mine at least it takes more throw to lock and release than is available and in a tight set up it can take several twists with a 12 point box end to work.
I made a new bolt but instead of the stock 7/16-14 I went with 7/16-11. Of course that required a new nut, but alas I don't have a 7/16-11 tap. Not to worry, single point. Except I don't have any tools that will fit in that size hole and have a large enough point. Not to worry, I have a grade 8 bolt I could make a tap with. Being slow wifey put me to bed before I could finish. Some how through the wee hours I came up with yet another plan, I have a crappy old 5/8-11 tap, a couple of minutes on the grinder and I'll have a 12 point threading tool, go big or go home right ? Well an hour and a half later I did. Worked a treat.
Works great, almost makes me look like I know what I'm doing, never mind the how long questions.
Oh yeh the moral of the story, WTB. Anyone have a SB cast tailstock wrench ?View attachment 59683
SB on left, Johnny's on the right and 12 point threading tool up top.
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Yes, I do.... I will take a picture of what I have in a bit and update.
 
How? Um, how does a guy get six of those wrenches? I’m impressed with you sir. Or disturbed…

Too late for the OP, but one of my this summer projects will be to make a new screw and nut for my SB9 tailstock so that the wrench moves away from the topslide on tightening. Maybe this will be user friendly? Probably it will take me awhile to get used to tightening wrong way.
 
Lucky7 said:
How? Um, how does a guy get six of those wrenches? I’m impressed with you sir. Or disturbed…

Too late for the OP, but one of my this summer projects will be to make a new screw and nut for my SB9 tailstock so that the wrench moves away from the topslide on tightening. Maybe this will be user friendly? Probably it will take me awhile to get used to tightening wrong way.
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I so wish I only had 6...... But I am now down to 5 extra ones, or at least I will be when I get out of the dentist office.... :rolleyes:
I bought a couple fairly large South Bend parts lots over a few years and have been slowly moving along the extras. :cool:
 
Okay, I'm going to add so you guys can have a few giggles at my expense.....

About five years ago I picked up a CX706 lathe. I never read the manual and started using it. My biggest pet peeve was just as you described, to tighten the tail stock it required two iterations with the wrench to get it tight. Then (quite a while later) when browsing the BB site I noticed the new CX706 now had the easy to use locking lever for the tail stock. Hmmm I thought must have purchased the old model. So I started wondering if I could somehow implement the easy to use locking lever. I was about to remove the tailstock to scope things out and lo and behold there was the locking lever flopped down out of sight, on the far side of the tail stock.

It's not such a huge deal to use the wrench, but since you do this so often it it sure makes it a lot more convenient to never need the wrench.

Perhaps I should have read the manual or at least done a better initial inspection.
 
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