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Jul 9, 2018, 02:15 PM #1

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Shop built telescoping steady rest for South Bend Heavy 10 lathe

https://imgur.com/gallery/vG8qS8O

Not a list of instructions, but enough detail in the photos for anyone who would like to give it a try. The main body is made from 3" bolted pipe flanges. Nice thick machineable steel, I had to do something useful with it.

The only thing not repurposed or scrap-sourced was the three 3/4" conduit couplings. I paid cash money for those, about $6.50 if I remember right. It's been on the back burner for a while, but I found myself needing to turn a clean shoulder on some 3" cast iron, so the steady rest got moved to the front of the project queue. It performed very nicely. Rock solid and smooth turning.

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