Making A steady Rest For The Lathe 

It often is the case making things yourself could be much more expensive either immediately or in the long run. Every time you need a bolt do you get a piece of barstock or do you go and buy one.

@@chauvinemmonsyes but a lot of the time the "cheap" (as in actually affordable) stuff is usually pretty shoddily made and it's really easy to get pissed off at something you bought, but if you made it yourself you kinda accept it as is/fix it. Plus not everything in life is about money, if you enjoy machining stuff you might as well do it for the enjoyment of doing it.

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Like a lot of us, he doesn't have a powered saw to do that kind of work. I normally do a bunch until my arms are tired, tame a break, come for more. Really slows the progress down!

I have one of those portable bandsaws converted to a little table saw. But for most cuts, I still like the manual workout.

He used a grinder. You can tell from the the end in shot just before he cleans it up with the mill

Push mig drag stick

Cheers

The weight is good for damping noise /harshness /vibration

A good suggestion

​@@artisanmakesi can add to this, if you make it a rhomboid shape with a radius on the dull corners itll lock into place without needing to be pulled up. Thats whats being sold for extruded aluminuim too

I have an atlas 618 and I need a steady rest do you have any photos of it you can provide so I can replicate it?

@@MegaLostOne awesome thank you!

Find a spot, whatever it takes lol. The two machines compliment each other and I wouldn't want to go back to one without the other.

His fly cutter he faced that round steel with in the beginning was awesome.

Cheers matty

He has the ground clamp on the bed rails just ahead of the tail stock, but I agree that this is bad practice as there is a possibility that electricity, trying to find the lowest resistance circuit, could go through hidden bearing surfaces and cause damage. In this case the risk to the spindle is low as he welded to the base block first, but there could have been some arcing at the ground clamp end or under the base block, causing some scarring to the lathe bed ways, but at least those are easily dealt with using a stone.. Same thing applies when welding on a vise as he does in earlier on: best to clamp directly on the part or at least on the jaw/body of the vise. Many people clamp on the handle or the lead screw ball and then they wonder why their vise screw is starting to get so crunchy, because in this case, the current most certainly does flow through the lead screw and nut before hitting the body and finally the part being welded...

Thankyou

Best of luck

You can, I’m sure that would work, just a different way doing doing the same thing I guess

Thanks