I was machining some brass with my Sieg SC3 lathe, and when I came to use the tailstock it was no longer centred. The problem of course was some brass swarf on the ways had ended up under the tailstock. I knew you could get guards for the saddle but had not seen any for the tailstock. So, a couple of hours later and the trusty Prusa Mk3S had produced the holders in photo 1. I also printed a template (the smaller rectangular object) and used this to cut out the felt wipers to fit in the seal holders, photo 2. Which made a neat seal for the tailstock, photo 3.1 also limited the amount the tailstock could travel vertically by limiting the cam lever lock's motion. Photograph 4 is a screen capture of the design in Alibre Atom3D. Anticipating that this may be of interest for MEW readers I have provide the STL and the Atom3D file to the readers or for the web site. In the part file if you un-surpress "Back tailstock seal version" in the design explorer, it will mirror the part to produce the back seal etc. - haven't worked out how to create different configurations with Atorr 3D maybe it's not implemented.
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