Lathe Carriage Stop

**rossbotics** · Oct 18, 2018, 07:24 AM

After finishing the extended point live center and parting tool holder for my small lathe that I’ve been working on for the past several weeks I figured I would make the final attachment for this little beast by making a carriage stop, the machine came with a threading dial, follower rest, steady rest and change gears for threading but no carriage stop and there is no availability for one, I have had the need for this attachment several times in the past but always seamed to work around it, I don’t use this little machine to often but it’s nice to have everything you need when you’re doing a job.

After doing a little measuring I came up with a design that I thought would suite the purpose, the body and clamp plate were made from 4140 annealed steel while the adjustable stop screw, thumb screw and clamping screw were made from 12L14 and the graduated dial from 6061 aluminum, this attachment has a ground finish for now but I’ll probably oil blacken it later on for rust purposes, this tool works and functions as intended and looks nice on the machine.

I have included some manufacturing photos and a video making the graduated dial.

As always thanks for looking and happy machining

Doug