Tapers SOUTH BEND Lathe Compound Rest Method 701 tubalcain 

Thank you Ken.

This method reminded of a sine bar

@@aerogfs Except, done entirely in the lathe & no surface plate, bar or gage blocks required.

@@kejay74 but the same trigonometry.. can't get rid of it

@@aerogfs Granted, provided your desire was an actual angle in radians or degrees, instead of rise : run ratio such as 3/8" per foot etc.

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Thanks

Smart thinking,, good idea,, thanks 👍

Yes or potato flour, works on any kind of squeaky belt.

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As you just said, it totally depends upon the condition. Also, you would want to have a long bed, and I think all of those machines have the large spindle hole. That way a barrel will fit through the spindle.

I paid $1200 for my Bridgeport. It had a new mk motor and ball bearing lead screws for the X and Y. It wasn't perfect of course. I removed about a 1/4" of old paint before spraying it. Replaced the spindle lock and downfeed clock spring and recently the spindle bearings. It was in a friend's basement so I thought it belonged to him, bugged him for about 4 years to buy it. Turned out it was his brother's, one phone call and it was mine. To this day I'm thrilled to have it and use it every couple days at least. Thankfully my shop us through my garage so no stairs but I did have to remove the table (48") to get it through the two doors between shop and garage, which I did alone. Got my KBC 12x24 lathe, MSC vertical metal cutting bandsaw and a Jet bench top mill (which I sold very quickly) for $500. The lathe is Korean, missing steady and follow rests which I replaced with parts from Grizzley that worked after mods. The scroll in the chuck that came with the lathe was chewed up pretty bad and I couldn't find a suitable replacement and the spindle was not a standard size. I had a friend who's a gunsmith, with lots of machining experience, modify the spindle to 2 1/4 x 8. I was not going to learn how to thread on my spindle! I now have a 3 jaw, 4 jaw and a collet chuck. As with the mill I thank my lucky stars for finding the lathe for such a cheap price and use it quite often. I doubt you are but if you're in the Atlanta area I can probably be a lot of help getting your Bridgeport into your basement. I deliver and relocate residential gun safes. I have moved several weighing as much as a Bridgeport, some have taken extraordinary effort and creativity to go where the customer wanted. One required cutting a big hole in the man's living room floor and lowering the safe with an A-frame crane. That was fun!

@@renaissanceman7145 Gee thank you for the offer of help that a wonderful offer and I certainly appreciate it, but I live in Mentor Ohio, about 30 miles east of Cleveland Ohio. I have been waiting for the ground to freeze solid and good snow to sled the base around to the back of the house where my egress is on the plywood sled I built of it. That's the last component I need to move that is heavy. I certainly look forward to using it by spring. As a side note both my lathe and mill are from the estate of a gunsmith, they both had to be disassembled to be removed from his home basement shop that also had an egress door. Thanks again for the offer of help and for also read my comment. By the way from 2009 to 2013, I worked in the Atlanta area on a capital project of setting up a plant and liked the Atlanta area very much.

I have been using a 13 x 36 " ShopFox gunsmith lathe for about 7 years now part time.Grizzly brands the same machine is a different paint scheme, but different color. I have been very happy with my lathe: I have had NO issues with it, it came with everything I need (except tooling of course) and it does pretty much everything I want it too. BTW: when I bought it 7 years ago I know ZERO about machining. But by watching Mr.Pete and Atom and practicing I have become a reasonably accomplished machinist. Also, watch/buy MrPete's videos, they're a big help when you forget what he told you the first time!!! IMHO my2c

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@@mrpete222 awesome, I'm close to Springfield. Are there any machine shops you recommend? I don't know of any and I'm needing two ball joint taper adapters machined

No, not, unless it is equipped as such. That was an option.

Lathe in reverse and turning on the far side needs cutting tool right side up.

@@ehess1492 you are right. Tool upside down normal spindel rotation turning on the far side 🤔?

@@MrArray1967 correct. Think of it this way: Forward spindle rotation = 1 Reverse spindle rotation = -1 Tool right side up = 1 Tool upside down = -1 Cutting near side = 1 Cutting far side = -1 Multiplying the 3 numbers needs to give a positive result. Or, more simply, non-standard cutting setups must be done in pairs, never alone, or all three. Any two will work together.

I needed one and got tired of the silly prices, so I made one. Learned a lot along the way!

They are really expensive

it must have come out of the high school