Tony Bird
Senior Member
Hi,
A friend mentioned that he had read a magazine article about fitting a vernier gauge to a lathe tail using the holes drilled in it for the oil nipples. My Myford Super Seven's tail stock has two oil nipples on the top of it and I have a vernier gauge 100 mm long which is the same as the travel of the tail stock mandrel. I had already milled a slot in the mandrel to accommodate a section of ruler but a vernier as long as it didn't get in the way would be better.
List of photographs.
Myford Super Seven tail stock.
Scale fitted into the tail stock mandrel.
First the nipples were removed from the tail stock body and their mating surface cleaned.
The nipple thread was 2 BA and a pair of shouldered nuts were made.
Using two threaded rods on with a point the nuts were fitted to the tail stock.
A piece of 2" x 1/8" aluminium angle was used as the vernier gauge support, the pointed threaded rod being used to mark out the position of the second hole.
The threaded rod was drilled to allow oil from the nipple to reach the mandrel.
With the angle in place it was made parrallel to the lathes axis by shortening one of the nuts in the one plane and elongating one of the securing holes in the other.
The angle was shaped and drilled for the vernier gauge and a piece of 2"x 1/4" aluminium angle used for the securing piece for the mandrel.
Finished
Regards Tony.
A friend mentioned that he had read a magazine article about fitting a vernier gauge to a lathe tail using the holes drilled in it for the oil nipples. My Myford Super Seven's tail stock has two oil nipples on the top of it and I have a vernier gauge 100 mm long which is the same as the travel of the tail stock mandrel. I had already milled a slot in the mandrel to accommodate a section of ruler but a vernier as long as it didn't get in the way would be better.
List of photographs.
Myford Super Seven tail stock.
Scale fitted into the tail stock mandrel.
First the nipples were removed from the tail stock body and their mating surface cleaned.
The nipple thread was 2 BA and a pair of shouldered nuts were made.
Using two threaded rods on with a point the nuts were fitted to the tail stock.
A piece of 2" x 1/8" aluminium angle was used as the vernier gauge support, the pointed threaded rod being used to mark out the position of the second hole.
The threaded rod was drilled to allow oil from the nipple to reach the mandrel.
With the angle in place it was made parrallel to the lathes axis by shortening one of the nuts in the one plane and elongating one of the securing holes in the other.
The angle was shaped and drilled for the vernier gauge and a piece of 2"x 1/4" aluminium angle used for the securing piece for the mandrel.
Finished
Regards Tony.