8" light duty steady rest

[Frank S]

The new steady rest is working great.
I hoisted the 150lb tube onto the lathe got it all aligned up then turned the end closest to the chuck which had some plates welded to the spindle I torch cut them off but didn't bother to grind down the cuts so it was a rough hard interrupted cut for a while it didn't take too long to get under the cut offs down to good metal with a 3/4" cemented carbide cutter then changed out for an insert cutter now just have to make a light cut to remove the powder coat paint and true up the roundness of the pipe. I'll probably go ahead and grind some of the torch cut on the next pipe though, that way there won't be so much cutting to get under the weld and less time in an interrupted cut situation.