Internal Stock Stop for the Mini Lathe

[Toolmaker51]

I needed stock depth stop capability for my mini lathe. I designed and built both an internal and an external stop..........snipped.........
Once set, the stop can be removed and reinstalled later using the shoulder to re-index the stop location. (This assumes that the nut torque is somewhat consistent between the repeated installations, and that the threaded rod is not disturbed, of course.)

On a mini-lathe I want to point out. You have no idea how many full size lathes, in full-on commercial shops, taking in serious work at considerable per hour rates, at the hands of 'dedicated' machinists have no spindle stops for any of their lathes.
It's hard for me to look at any lathe and not envision how to arrange a stop. It's harder yet to find a milling machine not fitted with a table stop; why are lathes not regarded equally.
Always the same reply; "shop tooling is wasteful use of man hours", or "it won't get used, just lost".

Well, it would still be productive today IF BUILT WHEN RATES WERE LOWER, and anything getting second operations or just a few handfuls of multiple parts would have paid for it over and over again.
Tools getting lost are accountability issues, past or future.